From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 14 5: 8: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.eclipse.net.uk (proteus.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3ACC14C19 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 05:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by proteus.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354B49B0C; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:07:57 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3805C7B2.93B7BA92@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:08:18 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carol Deihl Cc: jahanur , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nslookup problem please help References: <3803FE63.9024EC24@tinker.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Carol Deihl wrote: > > Hi Jahanur, I would recommend a bit of reading about DNS, BIND and zone files. O'Reilly have a book on the subject or there's plenty of reading material on the web. http://www.acmebw.com/ is a good place to start, there are a lot of archived questions that will solve many problems. > Basically, you pay internic to get the root servers to tell *which* > name servers to ask when looking for your domain. or one of the other registrars. CORE have a service that works. > Note that even after you've done this, you will still have to wait > for things to time out of caches. or 'ndc reload' on the secondaries (or failing that 'ndc restart'). If it's a new bind you can just do the single zone with 'ndc reload zone.foo.com' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message