Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 23:41:02 -0800 From: wes@intele.net To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: dbrockus@cyberhall.com, ipc1@tribeca.ios.com Subject: DNS and Bind on FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199602080741.XAA00356@obie.softweyr.com>
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Dale Benzer asked: > Having some trouble understanding how to set up BIND With freebsd 2.1 The > doc from the bind 4.9.3 tar file isn't all that helpful.... > > Is there any further documentation, or is there a version of bind ready > to run for freebsd 2.1? At nearly the same time, David Brockus queried: % Does a DNS Server come with the FreeBSD 2.0.5R? If not, % does anyone know where to find one for FreeBSD? Thanks. Yes, gents, FreeBSD comes with a DNS server, based on BIND (the Berkeley Internet Naming Daemon). Just to keep things confusing, the executable for this is called 'named'. ;^) Named is relatively straightforward to configure. Your best bet is to run out and buy a copy of "TCP/IP Network Administration," Craig Hunt, O'Reilly & Associates 1992, ISBN 0-937175-82-X. If you are going to run *any* TCP/IP network, even two nodes like mine, ;^) you *need* this book. O'Reilly can be found on the Web at http://www.ora.com, or look at the Bookpool, http:://www.bookpool.com. If you want to delve more deeply into DNS, you're a sick and twisted individual. Get help immediately, in the form of "DNS and Bind", Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly and Associates 1992, ISBN 1-56592-010-4. Oddly enough, both of these books just happened to be laying under my left elbow when I encountered your messages. ;^) If you just want a sample configuration, mailto: wes@intele.net and I will send you my entire /etc/namedb directory. You may do with it as you wish. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett
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