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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Fri Nov 4 02:40:19 1994
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 02:36:10 -0500
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From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hello.
If you are running a Unix system in the mit.edu domain (that is: a
Linux box on ResNet), you should be running the "named" program.
"named" is a program that looks up the I.P. addresses of hosts on the
net, and remembers the addresses so that you don't have to look them
up more than once. (If you want detailed information about what named
does, read the manual page and the net-2 howto.) Basically, running
named will decrease network traffic and increase performance. It will
also keep the Athena network administrators from hunting down and
killing all the Linux users because we're destroying the name servers.
To summarize the above paragraph: YOU WILL RUN NAMED.
Here's how.
First, install the "mit-named" Linux-Athena package. This contains
the configuration files for named in the mit.edu domain.
If you've forgotten how to install Linux-Athena packages:
1. Get the file /mit/linux/packages/mit-named.tgz
2. As root, run the command "cd /; tar zxvpf mit-named.tgz"
Second, you need to edit /etc/resolv.conf to show that your system is
now it's own nameserver. Find the line in /etc/resolv.conf that
contains the word "nameserver". Change it to read:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
(If you have more than one line that starts with "nameserver", remove
the others.)
Finally, you'll need to edit your rc files to run named when your
system reboots. It's very likely that you have a file called
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. This file probably contains the lines:
# Start the NAMED/BIND name server.
# if [ -f ${NET}/named ]
# then
# echo -n " named"
# ${NET}/named
# fi
Simpy uncomment them.
If you do not have /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2, or it does not contain these
lines, you will have to figure out how to run named at boot-up.
Now, reboot your system to make sure everything worked.
If you feel that any of this message was unclear or you need help with
any of this, feel free to send mail to me or to linux-help.
Thanks. Have a nice day.
-Sal.
