From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 23:29: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359D537B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA40756; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39C3132F.F78652D1@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:29:03 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-091 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Tomlinson, Drew" Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Subject: Re: Help With named.conf References: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C4C92@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Tomlinson, Drew" wrote: > > I'm a newbie to both FreeBSD and Unix but I'm learning. In just over > a month, I've succeeded in installing 4.0-S, learning to use CVSup to > synch my source, recompiled my kernel and upgraded to 4.1-S, and > gotten Apache running. Congrats on your achievements so far. You should know however that it's considered rude to send HTML e-mail to any public list. > My next endeavor is to set up named (DNS). All I want to do is include > entries for the 3 nodes on my network so they can be resolved and then > forward any other requests to my ISP for resolution. You don't want to use dns for this. You want to put the entries for your 3 hosts in your /etc/hosts file, then make sure that /etc/host.conf says something like: # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind Then you'll be all set. Good luck, Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message