From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 16:17:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF8115018 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12442; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:14:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jason Scott Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS In-Reply-To: <199904090934.CAA11356@mail6.sirius.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Jason Scott wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good source for information on > DNS? I have purchased the book "DNS and Bind" from O'Reilly. > But, it doesn't make any sense to me... I have my own server, but > DNS seems very hard to figure out, anyones help would be greatly > appreciated. If you're using Bind8 (ie, FreeBSD 3.x), make sure you buy the Third Edition of that book. Earlier revs don't cover the Bind8 config file (which is otherwise poorly documented). The zone file format is the same, however. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message