From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 30 8:23:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from imail2.pica.army.mil (imail2.pica.army.mil [129.139.10.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8A237B7ED for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from onguyen@pica.army.mil) Received: by imail2.pica.army.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:23:07 -0400 Message-ID: <53EB67411602D211846900A0C9C7647A0784E945@mail3.pica.army.mil> From: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" To: "'freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: where can i find the document for DNS Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:23:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I want to set up my private lan at home an DNS. I try it but it seem not working like it suppose to. I follow the book "DNS and BIND" from O'relly. After do all of edit named.conf, named.root, hosts, resolv.conf and all of database file. I run named. I get couple of errors messages. this is my question 1)Do I need to set 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf as a nameserver? 2)when i do nslookup, i get a report something like this "cannot find the host 192.168.1.5 which is my freebsd who i set nameserver in resolv.conf. What should i do to get this work 3)if i put 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf, it work. According to "DNS and BINDs" book, i don't need to use the localhost (loopback) as a nameserver in resolv.conf. any host that set Nameserver would works. How can it won't work on mine Please help Olivier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message