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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Jivglailh@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970721191255.10649A-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <970721201311_1658047939@emout06.mail.aol.com>

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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 Jivglailh@aol.com wrote:
> We have FreeBSD installed on a computer and we are using it as a web server.
>  We were wondering what is the difference between NIS and DNS, Bind, do you
> need to use all of this or do you use one of them?  We have been trying to

DNS is the system/protocol
BIND is the most popular implementation
NIS is a Sun service that you do not normally need/want to run

> set this up for about a week, and looking in books, trying to figure it out,
> we have figured some stuff out but we are now stuck.   We have our db files
> made, and our named.boot and named.root files all made, and we used nslookup,
> it showed us the server name, but it should nothing for the server address.
>  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Not much to go on :)  What does your named.boot look like?
How about /etc/resolv.conf?
Is named really running? (ps -ax|grep name)

Dan
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