Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:06:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's named.root? Message-ID: <19990905230638.A13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> References: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net>
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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.boot: configuaration file for BIND 4. obsolete now, FreeBSD comes
with BIND 8, which uses named.conf instead.
named.root: list of root nameservers.
named.conf: configuration file for named (duh!).
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