From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 12:35:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2449A14C37 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (kwoody@rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA26768; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:35:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth Reply-To: kwoody@citytel.net To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905135342.007de600@mail.9netave.net> Message-ID: Approved: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 chris@tourneyland.com wrote: >>> You want to get a copy of DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition from O'Reilly. It is >>>THE reference to all issues DNS, and you should read it and understand it >>>before putting a nameserver on the internet. Misconfigured nameservers can >>>cause all manner of problems. >> >>Arrrrg, I was afraid of that. Sorry if this sounds trollish (and >>unappreciative), but does is lazy old me really going to have to buy and >>read ANOTHER 400 page book just to get DNS up and going? Maybe I'm >>hopelessly naive, but why is DNS so complex? How come I can't just write a >>text file mapping IPs to hostnames? >> >>Oh well. I believe I'll take another look at my book and the FAQs to see if >>I can avoid the dreaded Bind book. >> Its not dreaded at all. I found it to be very well written and informative. While I dont have my own nameserver running I think I have enough knowledge to do so if I wanted to. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message