From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 14:35:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D302E150A5; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09215; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 07:53:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:53:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's named.root? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> Message-ID: 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: > 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). named.conf is akin to named.boot, it's the primary config file used by named. named.root contains the addresses of the root name servers so your DNS server can lookup domains. from the NAMED(8) manpage: /etc/namedb/named.conf default name server configu- ration file /var/run/named.pid (_PATH_PIDFILE) the process id /var/tmp/named_dump.db (_PATH_DUMPFILE) dump of the name server database /var/tmp/named.run (file: _PATH_DEBUG) debug output /var/tmp/named.stats (file: _PATH_STATS) nameserver statistics data you may want to pick up the ORA book about DNS. and please don't crosspost, thanks. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message