Mark, thank you for the knowledgable information you provided. I am just in the learning phase and now realize how much more I need to dig into the subject to learn more.
Cheers Mark Geisert wrote: > wynfield writes: > > Looking in /etc there is no named.conf file. Is this an oversight in > packaging? > > > > Any advice on getting named up and running (I don't have the expertise yet > to quickly write up a named.conf > > file?) > > named.conf is going to be different for every installation. It's where you > define the domains that bind will serve. There are lots of details that can > be gotten wrong. If you get certain specific ones wrong your bind server > can be victimized into participating in DNS attacks. > > Why do you need to run a DNS server? Is this for a local network only or do > you intend to expose it to the Internet? > > The knowledge needed to correctly set up named.conf is kind of specialized. > If we have some ISP admins on the list, maybe you'll get more specific help > but your best bet for something like this is an O'Reilly book or maybe the > ISC website (ISC being the folks who supply/support bind). > > ..mark > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple