From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 5 16:39:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EB31532F; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:39:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11NkQr-0004Nn-00; Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:06:41 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11NkQo-0003VZ-00; Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:06:39 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:06:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's named.root? Message-ID: <19990905230638.A13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > I'm exploring using my BSD machine as a name server (a skill I'm finding > extremely unpleasant to nurture), and in some newsgroup postings I came > across several mentions of a a file called /etc/namedb/named.boot. I looked > for such a file, and discovered I don't have one. However, I do have a > /etc/namedb/named.root (as well as a /etc/namedb/named.conf). named.boot: configuaration file for BIND 4. obsolete now, FreeBSD comes with BIND 8, which uses named.conf instead. named.root: list of root nameservers. named.conf: configuration file for named (duh!). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message