From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 06:44:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10899 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10878 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id JAA22468; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:44:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980118094405.39147@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:44:05 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Named not working References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0500, Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > I am trying to configure a FreeBSD system as our local mail and Internet > server.Our connection to the Net is through an ISP, to whom we have a > modem connection. How do I configure my name server to pass on all > requests to my ISP ? I have tried adding a "forwarders" line to > named.boot, but it still doesn't seem to be working. I have also > discovered that my inetd.conf file doesn't contain an entry for named. > Could that be a problem ? Is `named' running? If you're running a recent version of FreeBSD (2.2.2+), named is started by enabling it in /etc/rc.conf (/etc/rc.network actually starts it). named_enable="YES" # Run named, the DNS server (or NO). named_flags="-b /etc/namedb/named.boot" # Flags to named (if enabled). There may be some confusion between DNS MX records and mail transfer. Some applications (Netscape, etc.) have their own idea as to where the POP3/SMTP server(s) are located. Could you give an example of what's going awry? > Also, is there a way of changing my default DNS > to point to my ISP ? Have you tried adding your ISP's nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf? Ensure that your ISP's name servers are listed before other name servers. nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX nameserver YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY. > > Ritwik Bhattacharya > > Daimler Benz Research Centre India Pvt. Ltd. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.