From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 9:48:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C0314E77 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA82016; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D29E4D.79744BF4@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 09:46:05 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS References: <3.0.6.32.19990905012435.00825420@mail.9netave.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > > Hey all, > > I would like to get DNS going on my little 3-5 node network. First question, why do you want to do that? > Currently, I'm reading in my Unix book about configuring DNS, You want to get a copy of DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition from O'Reilly. It is THE reference to all issues DNS, and you should read it and understand it before putting a nameserver on the internet. Misconfigured nameservers can cause all manner of problems. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message