From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 14:45:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.hawaii.rr.com (smtp3.hawaii.rr.com [204.210.97.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119DC151EB for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from art@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from taz - 24.31.76.79 by smtp3.hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1774.114.11); Sun, 5 Sep 1999 11:45:23 -1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990905114450.008c3900@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> X-Sender: art@clients1.hawaii.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 11:44:50 -1000 To: chris@tourneyland.com From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" Subject: Re: What's named.root? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DNS is a complex beast and it's important to configure it correctly. I recommend you purchase the cricket book from O'reilly Associates "DNS and BIND", a *must* for sysadmins. It covers the subject in detail and is an indispensible reference source. At 04:24 PM 09/05/1999 -0500, you 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). > >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 > -- __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ Bank of Hawaii Tech Support art@hawaii.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message