From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 13:20:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC94937B417 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se [62.5.36.29]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 614386.190383.1015.1s1871739sheridan ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 22:19:43 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Devdas Bhagat Subject: Re: setting up a nameserver Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:19:43 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020227130615.A51315@voyager.bxscience.edu> <20020301233107.K20456@rivendell.worldgatein.net> In-Reply-To: <20020301233107.K20456@rivendell.worldgatein.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020303212022.BC94937B417@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 01 March 2002 7:01 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 27/02/02 13:06 -0500, Terry Dignon wrote: > > I have checked around, read the documentation, and even a few books > > (Freebsd Unleashed, Unix System Administrators Bible) but still cannot > > understand the setup of a nameserver or how to get it to interact with > > the rest of the network. If someone could "lend me a hand" or point me > > towards a helpful site I would be eternally grateful. there is a nice simple dns guide for a private dns at www.sendmail.org but this may start to give you a feel for how dns works in general. http://www.sendmail.org/tips/private-dns/ -- Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message