From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 13:55:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dra.com (mail.dra.com [192.65.218.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B6137B405 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from stlmail.dra.com (stlmail.dra.com [192.65.218.119]) by mail.dra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA08170; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:55:24 -0600 (CST) Received: by stlmail.dra.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:55:23 -0600 Message-ID: From: Eric Six To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Named help Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:55:21 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't get V.3 of DNS and BIND as it is out of date.. get V.4. It includes BIND V.9 information. ;) Eric -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Sarginson [mailto:csfbsd@raggedclown.net] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:46 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Named help On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Richard Wenninger wrote: > > > Doesn't the FreeBSD Handbook have a nice chapter on setting up a name > > server? Go check it out. Also Defcon1.org I believe has articles on Bind. > > > > Setting up a basic Name Server isn't that involved. Search the archives, > > I'm sure I gave a user step by step instructions on how to do this last > > year complete with zone creation! > > I found a good setup here http://www.sendmail.org/tips/private-dns/ > Bear one thing in mind, seriously, a huge number of name-server configuration problems are caused by typing mistakes...believe me I know :). If you get seriously interested the classic book is the O'Reilly book, "DNS and BIND", but that maybe information overload for a basic setup. (Interesting book though). Make sure you get the 3rd Edition if you buy it. Mmm, although there is version 9 now, humph. I don't know how much things have changed since 8. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message