From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 24 13:28:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01618 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01514 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17869; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E1CC91.159ADE43@dal.net> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:26:57 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0823 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" CC: Rudy , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bind References: <3.0.5.32.19980823181339.007aa180@squish.org> <35E0B0DA.961FB22B@dal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Studded writes: > > That depends, what do you want to do with it? FreeBSD comes with the > > BIND package installed... if you want to set up a simple resolver the > > info on doing that is in the handbook. Anything more complicated and you > > should get the book "DNS and BIND, Second edition" from O'Reilly and > > Associates press. > > Unfortunately, the Cricket Book is now pretty useless since it > describes the old configuration format. I had some success creating an > old-style configuration file and converting it to the new format using > the provided script, but it's kind of a hack and probably won't work > for more complicated setups (I have a caching nameserver with reverse > DNS for 127/8 and 10/8 and a fake forward DNS for ewox.org) The only thing out of date is the server configuration file format, which is actually a small part of the book. The zone file format and DNS theory haven't changed a bit. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message