From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 19:16:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28104 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28087 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id CAA10671; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 02:16:36 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Jivglailh@aol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS In-Reply-To: <970721201311_1658047939@emout06.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 Jivglailh@aol.com wrote: > 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 DNS is the system/protocol BIND is the most popular implementation NIS is a Sun service that you do not normally need/want to run > 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. Not much to go on :) What does your named.boot look like? How about /etc/resolv.conf? Is named really running? (ps -ax|grep name) Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82