From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 15:15:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E037716A515 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leo.hauptmann@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462EB43D78 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:15:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leo.hauptmann@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so514353uge for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 08:15:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lEztUnGllJKtlT4dzIrm3AK1NYJgFbgSv3BWnLhKNoOQ/fKczx3fLAwSWs76zkOq1dwYClKnF9GJfGd7tLtS+wmjqEyNOJivjnYzuGQH0MBkFOvKf+NkvyRHbOizSAtpf7HFacfl/1GtErRorUNuzUYkR0LZoTNHoHyEyrUza2g= Received: by 10.67.108.27 with SMTP id k27mr4284618ugm; Mon, 15 May 2006 08:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.26.20 with HTTP; Mon, 15 May 2006 08:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4f592d0d0605150815x4eda6cf2nf482926e4cf8c178@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:15:43 +0300 From: "Leo Hauptmann" To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <446819FC.90903@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4f592d0d0605140738o5be12a64xdfe75256aab5f9e4@mail.gmail.com> <20060514144256.5a1cf45c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <446819FC.90903@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: DNS part of the manual X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:16:04 -0000 > I'm sorry for your frustration, but notwithstanding what I said above, th= e > FreeBSD Handbook should not become a full-featured DNS instruction manual= . I agree. However, if there were no basic instructions many chapters that exist at this moment could be truncated into 1-5 lines of text. Some other chapters show very nice balance between "mastering the art" and providing only the bare necessities. The Kerberos5 chapter comes into my mind as an example of that. > DNS is a very complex area, and as you've discovered it is difficult to g= et > it right. There are several on line help forums for this topic, the best = of In a basic situation it seems quite simple to me. I wouldn't run anything serious with this little knowledge but it is humming nicely in my virtualized environment. What was difficult was finding information. When I managed to gather all the required pieces the actual concepts and configuration was rather easy. If I had a good overview at the beginning finding the rest would have been faster and easier. The Bind8 specific dns chapter had a lot of that but it also lacked some parts. But yeah, that's all subjective.