Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:30:10 -0600 From: Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DNS Message-ID: <4F0140E2.7000401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120102025922.813F0106575A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20120102025922.813F0106575A@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hello, I've been using FreeBSD as a local nameserver (with my own .local domains!) for quite some time. FreeBSD comes with a name server already installed; you don't need to get it from the ports, although I'm not sure what difference it makes. The one that comes with FreeBSD can be enabled with named_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. The configuration files are in /etc/namedb/. Getting a book about BIND really helps learning it. The examples are especially useful. BIND can be a little daunting to learn, but it all clicks in the end. If you want to use BIND for mass hosting, you can consider hooking BIND up to MySQL or a similar database. I haven't personally tried it, so I cannot vouch for it to work. It may be what you're looking for, though. You can have a look at this link: http://mysql-bind.sourceforge.net/. Hopefully, this helps. Sincerely, Kevin Zheng
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