From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 10:37:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7F837BF2B for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA76631; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:35:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39919652.884F02C@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:35:14 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, stupid questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > > Where do I go to find information on setting up a nameserver? :) I > must be missing it in the handbook, and I don't have access to Greg's book > here at work. I've done man dns and read through that and the suggested > man pages, still unclear as to where to start. :( Thanks in advance! > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Start in /etc/namedb, read the example config files for named, (/etc/namedb/named.conf by default for FreeBSD > 3.1). Simply formulate yourself a new config file based on the example provided with FreeBSD. Then you can run the /etc/namedb/make-localhost utility to create a localhost.rev file, this will control the zone required for the loopback interface. You can then copy the header from this file to create new zone files. UGU is a good place to start reading online as to how you should exactly formulate said zonefiles. Try http://www.ugu.com/, I know they have some really good links for DNS stuff there. When you run into more specific questions regarding DNS, (ie a specific problem with say an MX record), re-post a request here and someone will most likely be able to help you out. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message