Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:31:35 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Simple DNS Configuration Message-ID: <200607241531.56054.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770607241610q278b84cs43c7bb2762104238@mail.gmail.com> References: <f2c91f770607240000w44693d61jde950fbe618f4574@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20060724172439.02531cf0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <f2c91f770607241610q278b84cs43c7bb2762104238@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 24 July 2006 15:10, David Stanford wrote: > On 7/24/06, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: > > dns files > > > > Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: > > ps -ax|grep name > > > > -Derek > > Derek, > > nsswitch.conf hasn't been modified from the default: > [root@chadwick ~]# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > group: compat > group_compat: nis > hosts: files dns > networks: files > passwd: compat > passwd_compat: nis > shells: files > > And I've been verifying named is running after every stop/start of the rc > script: > [root@chadwick ~]# ps aux|grep named > bind 26207 4.1 0.2 4060 3328 ?? Ss 7:09PM > 0:00.08/usr/sbin/named -t /var/named -u bind > root 10645 0.0 0.0 1300 952 ?? Ss 6:09AM > 0:02.08/usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s > > There has to be something I'm missing as I've set this is up in the exact > same manner on a dev box at home using the same named.conf and master > files, and still yield the same results. > > -David I have the same problem as you trying to do that by hand. I even have the O'Reilly book on dns. As a suggestion, you might install webmin. It does a very good job managing bind. I even used it at an ISP I worked for and really liked it. We had 300+ virtual domains and editing all the files by hand was a nightmare when something changed. just my .02 Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBExVhrp5D0B1NlT4URAq/eAJ4+aq5ZaAgNNVHOLm1zrRmQl8baRQCfWhTF Rdt4NG+TIBGQ6JFA6oz17dU= =zL6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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