From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15:17:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275B737C16A for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:17:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-143.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.143] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA30879; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:16:31 +1100 From: Danny To: Kevin English , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS Server Setup Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:15:21 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000307215857.920.qmail@web1601.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030910183407.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG O'Reilly has this really good book that explains from beginner(like what is zone record etc ) to troubleshooting techniques. I suggest you purchase a copy of that O'Reilly book On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Kevin English wrote: > hello, > I am new to FreeBSD and sort of new to UNIX > administration. I managed to set up a firewall with > natd and ipfw, now I am trying to setup a DNS Server > to do two things: 1) act as a DNS cache for my local > network, 2) act as the web server for a domain name > that I recently bought and allow my to receive and > send mail with the domain name. > I've been browsing through different documents on > the internet but I don't have a clear picture of what > is actually involved here. I have enabled the named in > my rc.conf and started it but I'm not sure if > everthing is set up properly. Is there a command that > shows me what exactly is working and all the details? > One thing I'm confused about is the difference between > being a domain name server for my local network and > being a web server for the domain I own. Any help > would be appreciated or if you could just point me in > the right direction . . . Thanks. > > kevin > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message