From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 17:13:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21794 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emout06.mail.aol.com (emout06.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21789 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:13:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jivglailh@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout06.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id UAA05808 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 20:13:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 20:13:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <970721201311_1658047939@emout06.mail.aol.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have FreeBSD installed on a computer and we are using it as a web server. We were wondering what is the difference between NIS and DNS, Bind, do you need to use all of this or do you use one of them? We have been trying to set this up for about a week, and looking in books, trying to figure it out, we have figured some stuff out but we are now stuck. We have our db files made, and our named.boot and named.root files all made, and we used nslookup, it showed us the server name, but it should nothing for the server address. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you