Set up a Non Authoritative DNS Server on a local LAN
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Server & Client pt2
~ Testing DNS Servers ~
To test your Non Authoritative DNS Server on your local Mac OS X LAN. First .....
Open Terminal
At prompt type: dig router.example.com
You should get something similar to this
Welcome to Darwin!
ns:~ spliffsmoker$ dig router.example.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> router.example.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13322
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;router.example.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
router.example.com. 86400 IN A 10.0.1.1
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
example.com. 86400 IN NS ns.example.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.example.com. 86400 IN A 10.0.1.2
;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.2#53(10.0.1.2)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 4 00:44:14 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 84
~ DNS Server : Get the reverse PTR record ~
At prompt type: dig -x 10.0.1.1
You should get something similar to this
Welcome to Darwin!
ns:~ spliffsmoker $ dig -x 10.0.1.1
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> -x 10.0.1.1
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29363
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.1.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
1.1.0.10.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR router.example.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
1.0.10.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns.example.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.example.com. 86400 IN A 10.0.1.2
;; Query time: 23 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.2#53(10.0.1.2)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 4 00:50:10 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103
~ DNS Server : Checking for MX records ~
At prompt type: dig example.com mx
Again you should get something similar to this
Welcome to Darwin!
ns:~ spliffsmoker $ dig example.com mx
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> example.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36728
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 86400 IN MX 5 mail.example.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
example.com. 86400 IN NS ns.example.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.example.com. 86400 IN A 10.0.1.2
;; Query time: 24 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.2#53(10.0.1.2)
;; WHEN: Sat Nov 15 23:55:40 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 79
~ DNS Server : Test a external site ~
At prompt type: dig apple.com
You should get something similar to this
Welcome to Darwin!
ns:~ spliffsmoker $ dig apple.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> apple.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34143
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apple.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
apple.com. 3600 IN A 17.254.3.183
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver.apple.com.
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver2.apple.com.
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver3.apple.com.
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver4.apple.com.
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver.asia.apple.com.
apple.com. 172800 IN NS nserver.euro.apple.com.
;; Query time: 569 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.2#53(10.0.1.2)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 4 00:55:58 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 188
~ One Last Point ~
For web browsing / file services you just need to put the host name in
for web browsing
http://host4/ will take you the computer with the IP Address of 10.0.1.4
and for file services
afp://host4 will take you the Mac with the IP Address of 10.0.1.4
