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[Waqas Ashraf <waqas281 AT gmail.com>]

Cool when I get home I can shot you details of how I did it and what troubles 
I ran into that way we can have a troubleshot guide or well partial 
troubleshoot guide. 

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> That would be great...
> 
> On 01/08/2013 10:22 AM, Waqas Ashraf wrote:
>> I could give you a rough guideline the way I did mine and you can improve 
>> on it and put in nicer word? 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Someone would have to write that up, or at least give me a rough
>>> guideline to how they set it up.  I haven't run Windows in over 6 years,
>>> but I could load it up on a VM to fill in the details.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/08/2013 09:54 AM, Waqas Ashraf wrote:
>>>> Oh please do rewrite that page and also if you could please add BIND on 
>>>> windows setup as well on that list. 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, if you are just using a hints file, then I believe you are correct
>>>>> that you only need the list of nameservers in the file.  However while
>>>>> reading through the thread, I had the impression that waqas was slaving
>>>>> the root zone, in which case you need the entire zone file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Both methods are actually presented in the wiki docs, however there
>>>>> seems to be a lot of questions raised by that page.  I am considering
>>>>> doing a rewrite of that page to try and provide a clearer explanation of
>>>>> the various methods for configuring a server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 01/08/2013 02:56 AM, Simon wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/08/13 00:31, Jeff Taylor wrote:
>>>>>>> Actually you were right the first time... You want to AXFR the root 
>>>>>>> zone
>>>>>>> so you get a complete copy of it.  If you just query for NS records, 
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> get a list of the accepted nameservers, but you don't have your own
>>>>>>> complete local copy of the zone.
>>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think we're getting confused here. Let me explain my understanding 
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> I would appreciate it if you and others could comment if required.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To get a configuration similar to the standard ICANN setup with Bind 
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> using Opennic, you need to replace the standard root hints file with 
>>>>>> one
>>>>>> suitable for Opennic. The hints file is not supposed to contain a full
>>>>>> copy of the root zone, it is simply intended to provide enough
>>>>>> information (hints) to resolve the root zone directly from the root
>>>>>> servers. Therefore, adding this information to the root.hints file is
>>>>>> enough to get a basic nameserver working with Opennic. This information
>>>>>> can be obtained by using dig -t NS on the root ( . ) zone from one of
>>>>>> the Opennic nameservers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, if desired, we can take the configuration a step further and
>>>>>> add some zones to our config. If we decide to go this route, the minmum
>>>>>> we would add is this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> zone "." {
>>>>>>              type slave;
>>>>>>              file "opennic/root.db";
>>>>>>              masters { 75.127.96.89; };
>>>>>>              allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>>>              notify no;
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> zone "opennic.glue" IN{
>>>>>>              type slave;
>>>>>>              file "opennic/glue.db";
>>>>>>              masters { 75.127.96.89; };
>>>>>>              allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>>>              notify no;
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Generally, if you have gone this far, you would then continue with
>>>>>> adding slave statements for the TLD's, thus:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> zone "geek" IN{
>>>>>>              type slave;
>>>>>>              file "opennic/geek.db";
>>>>>>              masters { 202.83.95.229; };
>>>>>>              allow-transfer { any; };
>>>>>>              notify no;
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ... and so on for the other TLDs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Comments anyone?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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