From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 21:58: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FA214E0F for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11220; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:57:44 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from mike) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199909170457.MAA11220@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: better way of managing dns In-Reply-To: from "Francis A. Vidal" at "Sep 17, 1999 12:48:37 pm" To: francis@usls.edu (Francis A. Vidal) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:57:44 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > is there a tool to manage dns a little easier? > > > > DNS is not easy to manage. The only "tools" that will really > > help you are education and experience. That said, if you go to your > > /usr/ports directory and type "make search key=dns" you will get some > > suggestions. However you should be aware that trying to use those > > tools without thoroughly understanding what you are doing is likely to > > cause you more harm than good. > > looks like i have to deal with it :) thanks for the tip. the only DNS > tools in the port are dnslint and dnswalk. > There is also 'dig' in the main dist. Check out 'man dig' for details. Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message