From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 4: 1:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2462D37B676 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08494; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:00:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdVs8492; Mon Apr 17 21:00:49 2000 Message-ID: <012001bfa85c$6f436a90$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Chris Fedde" <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200004171118.e3HBIgh70670@fedde.littleton.co.us> Subject: Re: DNS for virtual hosting Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:02:33 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Your ISP will probably be happy to handle all your domains for you. > Simply make a request of them should be enough. I'm afraid that in this particular case, for various political reasons the "ISP" is not in a position to provide the necessary entries, hence the need for me to setup a local DNS server Your systems will > only need to be "stub" resolvers with a properly configured > /etc/resolv.conf. But if you want to do it yourself it is realy . Obviously I'm not the only one who believes its " not as hard as some of the documentation makes it sound" :) Judging from most of the unix stuff I've learned to date its probably as simple as falling off a log, & the problem is simply less than explicit docs. I've recently produced an entry level tutorial on basic FreeBSD gateway / mailserver/ webserver setup for members of our non-profit internet access group, and in its simplest form its condensed the essentials of the regular thousand page manuals to only about 7 A4 pages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message