Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:05:20 +0100 From: "Richard Morte" <richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: DNS configuration problems with BIND 8.1 Message-ID: <LOBBKEGHCNEHPLGFIAKPAELOCAAA.richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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Hi. Can anyone help with the following problem. I work from home and am trying to set up the following configuration: ----- -------- | ISP |--//--| sparky | 192.168.120.1 FreeBSd 3.2-RELEASE ----- -------- | -------- | rics | 192.168.120.101 Win 98 -------- | -------- | ians | 192.168.120.102 Win 98 -------- | -------- | rics2 | 192.168.120.103 Win 95 -------- Although I could enter addresses/names into 'hosts' on all the machines (and this seems to work fine), I wanted to get DNS working on sparky so that I could use it running Apache as a local web server during development of clients' sites. This way I can access development sites, run test scripts and hack around till I get things working correctly. I also wanted to use it as a server for the Win m/c's by running Samba. Question: Much of the documentation on BIND/DNS refers to named.boot. However, I believe 8.1 requires entries only in named.conf. Is this unequivocally correct? If so, I believe I am almost there in getting DNS working. The next set of questions will require me to post the output of a number of config and log files (too much to post in this initial query). If anyone is willing to do a little hand-holding and doesn't mind picking their way through the .conf and .log files I will post the output to them. PS. DNS/BIND seems to be a regular issue in the mailing archives. As a technical author and I am as much interested in knowing why things work as well as why they don't. If I get DNS sorted, does anyone think it a good idea to put it all together in a "diary" or FAQ or something? Would this be useful? Thanks in anticipation of any replies! Richard Morte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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