From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 24 02:59:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28068 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28036 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.129]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA19276; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Studded Cc: Rudy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bind References: <3.0.5.32.19980823181339.007aa180@squish.org> <35E0B0DA.961FB22B@dal.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 24 Aug 1998 11:56:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: Studded's message of "Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:16:26 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA28062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Studded writes: > That depends, what do you want to do with it? FreeBSD comes with the > BIND package installed... if you want to set up a simple resolver the > info on doing that is in the handbook. Anything more complicated and you > should get the book "DNS and BIND, Second edition" from O'Reilly and > Associates press. Unfortunately, the Cricket Book is now pretty useless since it describes the old configuration format. I had some success creating an old-style configuration file and converting it to the new format using the provided script, but it's kind of a hack and probably won't work for more complicated setups (I have a caching nameserver with reverse DNS for 127/8 and 10/8 and a fake forward DNS for ewox.org) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message