Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:26:57 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Rudy <dce@squish.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bind Message-ID: <35E1CC91.159ADE43@dal.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19980823181339.007aa180@squish.org> <35E0B0DA.961FB22B@dal.net> <xzpww7yput0.fsf@hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
>
> Studded <Studded@dal.net> writes:
> > That depends, what do you want to do with it? FreeBSD comes with the
> > BIND package installed... if you want to set up a simple resolver the
> > info on doing that is in the handbook. Anything more complicated and you
> > should get the book "DNS and BIND, Second edition" from O'Reilly and
> > Associates press.
>
> Unfortunately, the Cricket Book is now pretty useless since it
> describes the old configuration format. I had some success creating an
> old-style configuration file and converting it to the new format using
> the provided script, but it's kind of a hack and probably won't work
> for more complicated setups (I have a caching nameserver with reverse
> DNS for 127/8 and 10/8 and a fake forward DNS for ewox.org)
The only thing out of date is the server configuration file format,
which is actually a small part of the book. The zone file format and DNS
theory haven't changed a bit.
Doug
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