From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 22:43:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15312 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newmail.tpgi.com.au (newmail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15306 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eirvine@newmail.tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by newmail.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA05818 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:43:09 +1100 Received: from tar-ppp-178.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.178), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by newmail.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda05811; Tue Mar 3 17:43:06 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: Subject: Re: DNS Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:46:01 +1000 Message-ID: <01bd4670$07ee9680$b21a1acb@gretchen> 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 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would second that advice. DNS is really quite simple but seems to be universally badly documented. Ah - the documentation seems good ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND DNS. Buy the book DNS and BIND. >On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:48:53PM -0500, Mike Alich wrote: >> Can you tell me where I can get some good information on running my OWN >> DNS? I cant seem to get it to work correctly when I use a >> /etc/resolv.conf file. DNS can't seem to resolve mt domain name and I >> am currently using an ISP to host my DNS. >> >> Can you please help or point me in a direction? > >O'Reilley & Associates: _DNS and bind_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message