From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 0:51:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E0337B7A7 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com) Received: from 184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.215.184]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:50:24 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA44707; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:51:21 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Kurtis Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS+Mail setup for Domain... Newbie one.. Help super Appreciated : ) Message-ID: <20000801005121.B35074@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000731113045.00ac0100@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000731113045.00ac0100@pop.mail.yahoo.com>; from ksscendyn@yahoo.com on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:41:36AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Some serious line wrap damage in the sent mail. And not even done by Outlook Express. Fixed where it was interfering with replies. I won't mention the unmentionble HTML that came with the mail too.] On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:41:36AM -0700, Kurtis Smith wrote: [snip, snip, snip, snip...] > Create a configuration file for Ideal. /etc/namedb/db.idealfasteners.com > > ; Configuration for DNS of zone idealfasteners.com > > idealfasteners.com. IN SOA ideal.idealfasteners.com. > admin.idealfasteners.com( > 1997010902 ; Serial (date, 2 digit version of day) ^^^^^^^^^^ You wrote this in 1997? Note that this date format will not work after the year 4294. The dreaded 4.294k bug. > 86400 ; refresh (1 day) > 7200 ; retry (2 > hours) 8640000 > ; expire (100 days) > 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day) You are missing a TTL. Later versions of BIND will whine about it. > ; Name Servers > > IN NS ns1 > IN NS ns2 > ns1 IN A 192.168.1.2 > ns2 IN A 192.168.1.3 > > ; Mail Exchange Records > > IN MX 50 fasteners.idealfasteners.com > IN MX 75 ideal.idealfasteners.com Fully qualified domain names (FQDN) need to end with a '.', IN MX 50 fasteners.idealfasteners.com. IN MX 75 ideal.idealfasteners.com. > ; Hosts > > ideal IN A 192.168.1.2 > fasteners IN A 192.168.1.3 > > ; Nicknames of Machines > > mail IN CNAME ideal > www IN CNAME fasteners > ftp IN CNAME ideal > > ; System Information HINFO records > > ideal IN HINFO "Intel Pentium Celeron 533A" > fasteners IN HINFO "Intel Pentium 150Mhz" You really want to make that public? Kind of a security risk. > ; End of db.idealfasteners.com [snip] > Now you have to create the localhost.rev for reverse DNS lookup this will > be created in /etc/namedb/localhost.rev > > @ IN SOA ideal.idealfasteners.com. > admin.idealfasteners.com. ( > 1997010902 ; Serial (date, 2 digit > version of day) > 86400 ; refresh (1 day) > 7200 ; retry (2 > hours) 8640000 > ; expire (100 days) > 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day) > IN NS ns1.idealfasteners.com > IN NS ns2.idealfasteners.com > > 1 IN PTR ideal.idealfasteners.com > 2 IN PTR fasteners.idealfasteners.com Again with TTL and again with ending FQDN with '.'. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message