From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 21:19:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B20106567A for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 21:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from opti.dougb.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D013D179AD6; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 21:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FF4B2F1.3000501@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:17:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120624 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: m s References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up dns server X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:19:51 -0000 On 07/04/2012 06:43, m s wrote: > I want to config FreeBSD as a dns server. You don't mention what kind of name server you want, but from the rest of your post I'm assuming that you want a local resolver. If that's the case, your best bet is to stick with all of the defaults in the base currently, since it's specifically designed to perform that function. hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection