From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 16:44:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D4B14DF6; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA36734; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:42:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199909052342.QAA36734@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: chris@tourneyland.com, 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:24:26 -0500 >From: chris@tourneyland.com >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? Sorry you're finding it so unpleasant; that's not the intent, from what I've gathered. The presence of "named.conf" is an indicator that the version of the name server software that is installed on your machine (BIND) is 8 (or beyond); "named.boot" is a file with similar function (but quite different syntax) that was used to define the configuration of BIND version 4 (and prior, I believe). named.root is not a name that has a definite purpose, though files with such names have often been used for identifying the root nameservers that your name server should use. It is thus also referred to as a "hints" file. I recommend the 3rd ed. _DNS and BIND_, by Albitz & Liu, O'Reilly & Assoc.; ISBN 15659251221 Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 q !}xhdrs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message