From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 17 21: 3:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3C214EEB for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA07562; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:03:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ability to test named? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ryan Thompson wrote: > My big question: Is there a way for me to easily (and safely) TEST my > configuration of named without breaking the functionality of my ISPs > setup? (i.e., I don't want to take over authority for my domain name > until I'm SURE I've got it right :-) Depends on your definition of safely. No one on the outside will use your name servers until you update your domain at Internic. So you can turn on named and use nslookup/dig to test your setup before cutting over. You don't even need to use it yourself other than for testing. Leave /etc/resolv.conf pointing at your ISP and specify your servers when invoking nslookup or dig for testing purposes. You do have a copy of DNS and BIND, right? Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message