Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:53:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's named.root? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909051450310.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 chris@tourneyland.com wrote:
> I'm exploring using my BSD machine as a name server (a skill I'm finding
> extremely unpleasant to nurture), and in some newsgroup postings I came
> across several mentions of a a file called /etc/namedb/named.boot. I looked
> for such a file, and discovered I don't have one. However, I do have a
> /etc/namedb/named.root (as well as a /etc/namedb/named.conf).
named.conf is akin to named.boot, it's the primary config file
used by named.
named.root contains the addresses of the root name servers so
your DNS server can lookup domains.
from the NAMED(8) manpage:
/etc/namedb/named.conf default name server configu-
ration file
/var/run/named.pid (_PATH_PIDFILE) the process id
/var/tmp/named_dump.db (_PATH_DUMPFILE) dump of the name server
database
/var/tmp/named.run (file: _PATH_DEBUG) debug output
/var/tmp/named.stats (file: _PATH_STATS) nameserver statistics data
you may want to pick up the ORA book about DNS.
and please don't crosspost, thanks.
-Alfred
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