Unless you're likely to break something in production, I'd try running it.
Bind 9 gives fairly good error messages, so if there's a problem, you'll
find it easily.
Basically, My guess is that you'll need only A records in the mydomain.com
file. What you're describing isn't very complex at all. If you're doing
Email as well, then you'll need MX records too.
I will say though. Things break in wierd places when you can't do reverse
lookups. It's fair to focus on forward first, but once it's running, I'd
strongly suggest making reverse a priority. For us, Email was an excellent
example. Without reverse lookups working correctly, some sites blocked our
email. (Spam Filters tried to verify that x.x.x.x was thisdomain.com, but
failed, so they refuse the connection).
Kev.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:21 AM
Subject: (clug-talk) DNS Config help?
> I'm trying to setup a basic DNS server with Bind 9. I have found a few
> tutorials online, and tried to step through them, but either I'm very
dense
> (which is likely), or I'm missing some basic info these tutorials assume
is
> known. To make matters worse, I think I need to dynamically modify my
> master record (to reflect my dynamic IP). Anyone care to help?
>
> Here's what I've completed so far:
> 1. Edited hosts.conf to change the order to bind,hosts
> 2. Added the following record to named.conf:
> zone "mydomain.com." {
> type master;
> file "mydomain.com";
> };
> (I don't think I need a reverse lookup at this point - and will worry
> about that later I think....)
> 3. I copied the localhost.zone file to mydomain.com. Then edited that
file
> to reflect my domain name and IP address. (I can email this file to you if
> it'll help). However, I'm not completely clear on what should be in this
> file. I'd assume a name to IP mapping is in order, by the samples I've
> found aren't very clear to a DNS newbie.
>
> I doubt my configuration would run right, so I haven't yet tried it. I'm
> hoping one of the "guru's" here can help out.
>
> Oh, if it helps, the server is a RH8 box, with a minimal install (no X
> windows). I may not have all the required utilities installed either -
> dnsconf appears to be missing. But I don't think it's 100% needed either.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Shawn
>
>
