From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 02:51:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA03325 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA03320 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA10491; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:51:00 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA22716; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:50:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA06437; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:34:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601071034.LAA06437@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: dns daemon To: NGNR41A@prodigy.com (MR GRAEME D SMART) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:34:21 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <091.08098517.NGNR41A@prodigy.com> from "MR GRAEME D SMART" at Jan 7, 96 03:47:40 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As MR GRAEME D SMART wrote: > > I'm working on setting up a domain name server for several school > districts in Idaho--something I've never done before. I have FreeBSD > running on a PC but when I run the NAMED program--at least I think > that's what it is; I'm new to UNIX--it can't find all of the files. Except of that it's actually written in lowercase, yes, that's it. The named configuration files are usually stored under /etc/namedb/ in FreeBSD, and the default configuration starts named with the argument ``-b /etc/namedb/named.boot''. Look into /etc/sysconfig on how to enable the name server. However, the ``missing files'' you are thinking of are your private named configuration files. You have to create them yourself, we cannot do this for you. I would recommend you O'Reilly ``DNS and BIND'' for a good tutorial into BIND and name service. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)