Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:34:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: Ka-Wh00t <sysadmin@noc.panthernet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hostname assigning? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9807291630510.2079-100000@guerilla.foo.bar> In-Reply-To: <19980729140523.A20445@cityip.co.za>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 at 14:38 SAT, Ka-Wh00t wrote: > > > > I recently set up a virtual host on my noc.panthernet.com box > > (208.18.212.108) using ifconfig aliasing and it seems to be running > > well. However, I would like to give it a hostname that will DNS Resolve. > > Inserting the ip/hostname into /etc/hosts works from within my box, but I > > want it to DNS Resolve. I also have root access to a nameserver (domain > > server) if I'm required to do it from there. Step-by-step instructions > > will be greatly appecitated! > > Yikes! Whole volumes have been written on the subject. Before starting to > mess with any established nameserver, I would sincerely recommend that you > read the book "DNS and BIND", by Albitz and Liu (published by O'Reilly and > Associates). And some online references: http://www.isc.org for the BIND operators guide. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html for basic informations on how to set up a basic nameserver (also with resolver mapping). Too bad that it doesn't mention RFC 2317. Bye, Sascha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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