From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 14:28:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet04-49.austin.texas.net [209.99.40.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD73150A5 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (localhost.calcasieu.com [127.0.0.1]) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23590; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:26:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905012435.00825420@mail.9netave.net> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:26:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: chris@tourneyland.com Subject: RE: Hoping to configure DNS Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Sep-99 chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to get DNS going on my little 3-5 node network. It's connected > to the Internet via ADSL. Currently my gateway machine is one of the > Southwest Bell machines (that's my ISP - I don't know if that's > significant). I plan to do web serving, and mail & ftp as well (plus mabe > some other stuf). > Here be the dragons but wtf ... what version of BIND do you have ? (head /usr/src/contrib/bind/CHANGES) assigned IP(s) ? firewall ? ipfw ? natd ? > Currently, I'm reading in my Unix book about configuring DNS, but it's a > little tricky. I'm what to put in /etc/rc to invoke named at boot time fir.dread$ grep named /etc/rc.conf named_program="/usr/sbin/named" # path to named, named_enable="YES" named_flags="" (my > humorous attempt to just invoke it from the command line led to a > bewilderment of complaints), named needs a configuration file and one or more zone files before running. and I'm not entirely sure what to put in my > named.boot file for my primary server (let alone any secondaries I might "named.boot" is for the 4.9 bind, "named.conf" for 8.1.x to run a minimal server (4.9.x): cd /etc/named sh make-localhost then in your named.boot -------------- directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . named.root primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev ; ; the upstream server forwarders 209.99.46.75 209.99.46.80 options forward-only ; ----------- Also check the newsgroup comp.protocols.dns.bind, and get the grasshopper book for anything serious. post me should you have other questions. Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- But I'm in good company, sendmail has kicked a great many butts in the past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message