Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 17:38:11 +0300 From: "Leo Hauptmann" <leo.hauptmann@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: DNS part of the manual Message-ID: <4f592d0d0605140738o5be12a64xdfe75256aab5f9e4@mail.gmail.com>
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I tried installing and configuring stuff using the FreeBSD manual as my primary source of information. Generally the manual has been superb in that but now I found the two chapters about DNS and Bind9 confusing. Although these chapters are not supposed to be complete handbooks about the covered topics I feel they do not cover the basics. The "26.7 BIND9 and FreeBSD" contains how to configure master zone and star= t the daemon. Then I'll have to go back to "26.6 Domain Name System (DNS)" fo= r the rest of the basic configuration. That chapter has got lots of information. It contains some basic terminology, concepts and configuration situations. Then sandboxing which I understood is automatically done with Bind9? What I was expecting was solid basic case: "How to build basic configuratio= n for running example.org authoritative DNS out of scratch". As far as I can see some things on that track are not covered at all even as quick'n'dirty. Like creating initial zone files for my "example.org". Instead of that the manual goes through the configuration file - which is mostly very well commented all by itself already. Also what I was wondering about was how to enable ddns. Okay, it's not that hard. Basically it goes like: Add the key to the dhcpd and tell it where th= e Bind is. Tell the Bind the key and enable the dynamic updates. What I quite honestly couldn't figure out with some 60 minutes of Googling was how to ge= t the dhcp client to send the hostname. I found some methods but they used th= e encryption key at the client too. It's not frankly very approach if you've got lots of clients (desktops for instance). Then - what is the minimal dynamic zone's zone file like? What I was after was two very basic and simple cases. Not throughoutly explained but in a way that it would work[tm] and there could be after that the "study more from these and these resources". 1-4 pages of solid instructions. The cases being "Taking a minimal installation of FreeBSD, enabling and configuring Bind to handle authoritatively the example.org" an= d "enabling ddns for this example.org, including basic configuration of dhcpd= , bind, and the dhcp-client and the zone". Not for-complete-dummies, but enough to get started. Especially finding good information about this ddns was quite hard. Lot's o= f documents refer to different methods, special cases, software versions (suc= h as different dhcp clients) and so on. I would offer to help with the manual (in case anyone feels the DNS chapters should be revised) but as I couldn't figure out and get working everything, .. lol. sigh.
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