460 Part Three • IPv6 Practice
primary (or “master“) DNS, each zone definition starts by indicating that
this machine holds the master records for that zone (type master). Next,
you’ve defined the name of the file in which the zone records will be kept.
The notify yes line indicates that your master DNS should notify its slave
DNS whenever records are updated within the given zone. And, last, the
allow-transfer definition tells your server which machine is allowed to do
zone transfers. This should be the IP address of your slave DNS.
24.2.3 CONFIGURING YOUR “localhost“ ZONE
Now that your named.conf file is complete, it’s time to start creating your
zone files. Drop down into the directory you specified in your named.conf
file as having your zone information. ...