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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS QUESTION
Date: 4 Apr 1996 23:14:17 GMT
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broman@detour.com (Bill Roman) writes:
> 
> How can I make our NameServer respond Authortatively for a domain name
> owned by someone else?

Declare it to be a primary (ugly!), or a secondary (better).  The
latter means that it will regularly check the primary for a changed
SOA record, and suck the entire zone over if the serial number has
been bumped at the primary.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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