From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 11:54:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA20835 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA20822 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA13553; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:54:01 GMT Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:54:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: bsd account cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!...starting a DNS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, bsd account wrote: > I've erad some FAQs & handbook but I can't see the steps I need to > implement a DNS on this machine. Do I ... > a) in RC.conf set 1) gateway = YES Not needed unless this machine will also be a gateway. > 2) then what ? Also in rc.conf set named_enable="YES" named_flags="-b /etc/named/named.boot" ^- substitute the path to your boot file here > b) I have the /etc/named directory on floppy from my old machine > which an ISP set up with DNS / Routing Gateway enebled. > Do I simply copy it to my new machine? It came from a 2.1.5 FBSD You can use it as a reference but unless none of the IP addresses have changed you won't be able to use it as is. The file format itself is unchanged for 4.9.x versions of named. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82