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On Monday 22 January 2001 08:15, Stephen Carville wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Martin, Debi (REO) wrote:
> - 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 ?
> -
> 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
>
> At the very least, read the DNS-Howto.
>
> Check out the ISC website: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
>
A very good writeup is on the Caldera users step by step site.
Although Caldera-centric, there is a lot of general info. Go to
http://linux.nf/bind.htm and select BIND/DNS.
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Thanks,
Collins Richey
Denver Area
