From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 1:14:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (cairo.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F300137B768 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@coombs.anu.edu.au) Received: from localhost (rob@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA09279; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:14:23 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:14:22 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle X-Sender: rob@cairo.anu.edu.au To: webmaster Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS for LAN In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I read all the on line docs about building a small DNS server for > the LAN, and I think they may be out of date (963012 was the > exaple serial). Trying to boot the example > file provided at freeBSD.org with all the correct params gave only > sytax errors when trying to start named. Next, read all the man pages for > named and bind looking for > answers and made a localhost.rev with typical evtries for SOA, added the > ip address of this box as 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf. The nameserver > still appears not to be working. Please point me in the direction of > updated on line docs, or tell me what I have forgotten or am doing wrong > : - ) > > The exact domain I am trying to make this box authoritative for (as far as > the LAN is concerned anyway) is my.domain. and the two IP addys are > 192.168.200.2 and 192...200.3. I have a similar situation here, and I'll send you the named.conf file off the list. If others need a working example, please contact me. Cheers, Rob ---------------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle rob@coombs.anu.edu.au Connect-A Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 13 Fax: +61 2 6248 8905 Ainslie ACT 2602 Mobile: 0417 293 603 Australia ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message