From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 13:15:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59B0D14EE9 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 26244 invoked from network); 23 Sep 1999 20:05:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ians) (212.56.115.167) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 23 Sep 1999 20:05:09 -0000 From: "Richard Morte" To: Subject: DNS configuration problems with BIND 8.1 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. Can anyone help with the following problem. I work from home and am trying to set up the following configuration: ----- -------- | ISP |--//--| sparky | 192.168.120.1 FreeBSd 3.2-RELEASE ----- -------- | -------- | rics | 192.168.120.101 Win 98 -------- | -------- | ians | 192.168.120.102 Win 98 -------- | -------- | rics2 | 192.168.120.103 Win 95 -------- Although I could enter addresses/names into 'hosts' on all the machines (and this seems to work fine), I wanted to get DNS working on sparky so that I could use it running Apache as a local web server during development of clients' sites. This way I can access development sites, run test scripts and hack around till I get things working correctly. I also wanted to use it as a server for the Win m/c's by running Samba. Question: Much of the documentation on BIND/DNS refers to named.boot. However, I believe 8.1 requires entries only in named.conf. Is this unequivocally correct? If so, I believe I am almost there in getting DNS working. The next set of questions will require me to post the output of a number of config and log files (too much to post in this initial query). If anyone is willing to do a little hand-holding and doesn't mind picking their way through the .conf and .log files I will post the output to them. PS. DNS/BIND seems to be a regular issue in the mailing archives. As a technical author and I am as much interested in knowing why things work as well as why they don't. If I get DNS sorted, does anyone think it a good idea to put it all together in a "diary" or FAQ or something? Would this be useful? Thanks in anticipation of any replies! Richard Morte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message