From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 14:26:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B842914E28; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@tourneyland.com) Received: from abc (adsl-216-62-177-1.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with SMTP id <0FHL00A90VIUR5@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:25:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:24:26 -0500 From: chris@tourneyland.com Subject: What's named.root? X-Sender: pop992333@mail.9netave.net To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm exploring using my BSD machine as a name server (a skill I'm finding extremely unpleasant to nurture), and in some newsgroup postings I came across several mentions of a a file called /etc/namedb/named.boot. I looked for such a file, and discovered I don't have one. However, I do have a /etc/namedb/named.root (as well as a /etc/namedb/named.conf). I'm curious - What are these for? Thanks, Chris ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 19449154 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.icq.com/19449154 (go there and try it!) or, * Send me E-mail Express directly to my computer screen 19449154@pager.icq.com * You may visit my Personal ICQ Homepage: http://members.icq.com/19449154 Download ICQ at http://www.icq.com/download/ For adding similar signatures to your e-mail go to: http://www.icq.com/email/emailsig.html ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message