On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Martin, Debi (REO) wrote:
- Hi,
-
- I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure the
- machine as a DNS
- server.
-
- Can anyone here help ?
-
- I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type nslookup
- on the command
- line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not even
- using the 5 second
- timeout before the error message comes up.
Make sure named is running. If not, start it (/etc/init.d/named
start) and watch the output in /var/log/messages. I use tail -f for
this. You would be surprised how often this is the problem :-)
Try using dig instead of nslookup. Dig provides much better
information on how a request was processed so debugging is easier
Frankly. I advise ignoring Linuxconf for DNS. It is a nice tool for
some things but it sucks for DNS administration. Some people have
reported good results with webmin but I have never used it.
At the very least, read the DNS-Howto. It will step you thru the
basics of setting up a caching only server and a simple domain server.
If you have to admin a large domain or a number of domains (or your
employer will pay for it), get a copy of DNS and Bind from O'Reilly.
The third edition is a little dated but it will still save you a lot
of headaches.
Check out the ISC website: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
If necessary, I can post some working files you can use as a template
but I need to know something about your goal.
--
--Stephen Carville
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