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Subject: Re: name server
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The experts will probably regard this as a technical question & get
mad if I don't
copy it to the questions list

> Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I
> could get a step by step format on this?
> thanks
>
Having looked high & low for years for such a creature I'm fairly
confident
that there isn't any such beast in existence :) I dunno that it would
be possible
to  explain that sort of witchcraft easily ..... its always been one
of the more
esoteric areas in a sea of complexity.  I do have the O'Reilly "DNS &
Bind"
book but its a far far cry from "step_by_step" status.

What has worked quite well for me is creating a simple caching
nameserver by
adding a named_enable="YES"  line in /etc/rc.conf & adding the IP
address of
the machine to /etc/resolv.conf.





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