From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 13:46:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C489237B404 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16ld39-000Jns-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:46:15 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id D391C4880D for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:46:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 13FEA22597; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:46:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:46:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Named help Message-ID: <20020314214615.GB12074@raggedclown.net> References: <20020307132330.59fb840f.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <20020314222600.C5B4A14A17@mail.westmoormfg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020314222600.C5B4A14A17@mail.westmoormfg.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Richard Wenninger wrote: > > > Doesn't the FreeBSD Handbook have a nice chapter on setting up a name > > server? Go check it out. Also Defcon1.org I believe has articles on Bind. > > > > Setting up a basic Name Server isn't that involved. Search the archives, > > I'm sure I gave a user step by step instructions on how to do this last > > year complete with zone creation! > > I found a good setup here http://www.sendmail.org/tips/private-dns/ > Bear one thing in mind, seriously, a huge number of name-server configuration problems are caused by typing mistakes...believe me I know :). If you get seriously interested the classic book is the O'Reilly book, "DNS and BIND", but that maybe information overload for a basic setup. (Interesting book though). Make sure you get the 3rd Edition if you buy it. Mmm, although there is version 9 now, humph. I don't know how much things have changed since 8. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message