Jerry Callen wrote:
> 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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So everyone is clear on what I am doing. I recently got DSL and want to host
my own domain (fictious) www.mysite.net IP 24.10.24.10
Ray
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