From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 2:30:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 02:30:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5387B37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:30:27 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 143yIR-0002pn-00; Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:29:03 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:29:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: Bob Cazzell Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: DNS name server entry? In-Reply-To: <001b01c05fcc$2d2488b0$24dbf1d0@rezn8.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bob Cazzell wrote: > When you're setting up a system to be a primary DNS, what do you put in the > DNS entry of it's network config, itself or it's parent/root DNS? > > I would be grateful if someone could enlighten me or point me to the > relevant docs. localhost? However, this obviously won't work to resolve addresses during the installation process, so if you're at that stage slap another NS's IP address in (obviously, make sure that (a) it responds to your queries and (b) you're permitted to use it). Then edit /etc/resolv.conf when everything is in place. There's nothing that says your resolver library needs to be configured to use your locally-running nameserver; it just seems the natural thing to do. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Spreadsheet through network. Oh yeah. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message