[98547] in RedHat Linux List
Re: DNS woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lazor)
Mon Nov 9 17:32:10 1998
From: "Ed Lazor" <osmosis@navicom.net>
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:10:32 -0800
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Ummm I have no idea on about half of what you just said hehe
I just installed Red Hat 5.2. I have 4 machines here at home. I
thought that rather than using just /etc/hosts I could turn on the DNS
server and point the other machines to it for host name lookups.
What would be the easiest and quickest way of getting dns
up and running under that situation? Also, I have another
reason for wanting to use DNS. I do eventually want to put
my linux box on the Internet. I'm assuming that I would need
to have DNS installed on my machine at that point. *ponder*
Then again, it would just act as a client at that point, I'll be
putting it online as a web server for fun. Any advice on that?
-Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>; Ramon Gandia
<rfg@nook.net>
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: DNS woes
>Ed Lazor wrote:
>
>> oop... ok, here ya go. And thanks for looking at it :)
>>
>> ------------ /etc/named.conf ----------------------------
>>
>> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
>>
>> options {
>> directory "/var/named";
>> /*
>> * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>> * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>> * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
>> * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>> * port by default.
>> */
>> // query-source address * port 53;
>> };
>>
>> //
>> // a caching only nameserver config
>> //
>> zone "." {
>> type hint;
>> file "named.ca";
>> };
>>
>> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>> type master;
>> file "named.local";
>> };
>
>Oh dear, this is not going to work at all. This is for
>a caching-only nameserver, not for one with authority on a
>domain.
>
>If you are running a simple DNS, and do not need the features
>of BIND 8, use BIND 4. Much simpler; its file is called
>named.boot.
>YOu will need an RPM for Bind 4 (4.96 is current, I believe), get
>the latest one. Your named.boot file would be abour 5 lines
>long.
>
>Anyway, here is my named.conf at Nook Net, and I am running
>Bind 8. Get some ideas from it (or decide to give up!), and
>let me look at what you come up with for yours.
>
>
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