Ray Bowles wrote:
>
> I know I asked about this about a week ago but I was receiving mail
> in windows then and that OS no longer exists and I lost all of your
> replys. I installed bind-8.2.2-P5.i386.rpm I have been looking and the
> info on linuxdoc.org and have become a little confused. I seems to me
> that I have to create a bunch of files (i.e. /etc/named.conf) because
> they don't exist. Any suggestions on where to go for more documentation?
> Or anyone willing to send well commented files? I didn't really get what
> I was looking at on linuxdoc.org, then again it was 3:00am this morning.
The O'Reilly book "DNS and BIND" is my personal favorite reference.
What sorts of things do you want to do with DNS? I run a small
LAN behind a firewall (using NAT), and have run BIND:
- to provide name service for the internal LAN (so the machines
can find each other without a hosts file), and
- to have a caching nameserver.
If that's all you want to do, it's pretty straightforward.
Here are files for "mynet.org", which is 172.23.27.0 (an
internal-use-only network). BTW, I'd love comments on these
files from more BIND-savvy readers...
================ /etc/named.conf:
options {
/* This is where the rest of the files will go */
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
query-source address * port 53;
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
};
zone "mynet.org" {
notify no;
type master;
file "mynet.zone";
};
zone "17.23.172.in-addr.arpa" {
notify no;
type master;
file "mynet.reverse";
};
================ /var/named/named.ca:
[get it from: ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.ca]
================ /var/named/named.local:
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.
================ /var/named/mynet.zone:
; definition of zone mynet.org
mynet.org. SOA foo.mynet.org. root.foo.mynet.org. (
2000060302 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
; name server
IN NS ns
ns IN A 172.23.17.1
; hosts
foo IN A 172.23.17.1
bar IN A 172.23.17.2
================ /var/named/mynet.reverse:
; reverse lookup for mynet.org
@ IN SOA foo.mynet.org. root.foo.mynet.org. (
2000060301 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns.mynet.org.
1 IN PTR foo.mynet.org.
2 IN PTR bar.mynet.org.
================ /etc/resolv.conf (on foo, the nameserver):
domain mynet.org
nameserver 0.0.0.0
================ /etc/resolv.conf (on bar, a client of the nameserver):
domain mynet.org
nameserver 172.23.17.1
That's it!
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