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Re: Help with DNS configuration?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Fri Nov 20 20:40:32 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:41:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Jeff Hogg wrote:
> Hallo :)
>
> I'm trying to set up a tiny network with DNS for the sake of practice. It
> will be for internal use only. I've got one system loaded with RedHat 5.1,
> kernel 2.0.35-2, bind 4.9.7. I managed to set up a cache only DNS without
> trouble on 127.0.0.1, but when I tried to set up DNS to handle our small
> network, I ran into trouble. I have the files root.cache, 127.0.0,
> 169.254.100 and Kendilson.com setup in /var/named and /var/named/pz as per
> the HOWTO. I checked the messages logs to see if any errors were showing,
> and all looks clear. However, when I use nslookup to check out the
> settings, I can only get the IP from the hostname, not the reverse.
> Sandy.Kendilson.com gets me 169.254.100.1, but It tells me domain/host does
> not exist if I use the IP to get the hostname. 169.254.100.1 is the address
> of the eth0 device in Sandy.Kendilson.com. The A records and PTR records
> refering to Sandy.Kendilson.com look right to me, is there something I'm
> just missing entirely here? Help! :)
>
In /etc you should have a file called named.boot. Do you?
Cheers!
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