Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:09:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mini-DNS approaches Message-ID: <19980707190912.J7792@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807070920.VAA06998@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:20:04PM %2B1200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980706021555.11949H-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199807061139.XAA19019@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> <199807070920.VAA06998@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 21:20:04 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > I have my named daemon running pretty much the way I want it. > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp30.html in order to set this up. > > My first attempts at implementing name resolution for hosts on the subnet > failed. So I bought the book "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig > Hunt. After about 3 or 4 hours of trial and error, I figured it out. It > now works. > > I'd like to find out more about the differences been the book and the > webpage as far as their examples are concerned. From an initial look, it > appears as if the information contained in the webpage example is actually > distributed across more files within the book example. Can anyone comment > upon this first impression? > > Specifically, the book example contains nothing like this from the webpage: > > curly.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.1 # The FreeBSD box > larry.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.2 # The Win'95 box It certainly does. These are the most basic of all DNS records. Take a look at page 219. I'm not sure what you have misunderstood here. > BTW: I believe that the example given for mydomain.db contains an error. > The comments should be prefixed with ; not # as shown on the line for > shemp.mydomain and the previous three lines. Is that correct? Yes. This is a very common mistake in setting up DNS files. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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