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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!usenet From: Sander Temme <sctemme@xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS setup? Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 19:31:54 +0100 Organization: Wherever Lines: 25 Message-ID: <310A6F9A.31DFF4F5@xs4all.nl> References: <8249-264362201@pinboard.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: asd05-06.dial.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) kurt@pinboard.com wrote: > > I hope this question does not look dumb. I'm very new to UNIX and need > to set up the machine as a DNS server. FreeBSD is installed and tucking > away nicely (as far as I can tell). At bootup 'named' is mentioned in > the list of started daemons. But I'm not sure, is this all to have DNS > running? (Yes, I ordered reference manuals, but they are not available > here in Japan and it will take some time till they arrive.) > You need to edit some configuration files and add site/domain specific information. Get the book 'TCP/IP Network Administration' by Craig Hunt. This has info about configuring named and a whole lot more. ISBN 9s 0-937175-82-X. Published by O'Reilly, who also do a book about DNS and BIND only. Good luck, Sander -- Sander the Sybersurfer sctemme@xs4all.nl Powered by FreeBSD http://www.xs4all.nl/~sctemme