On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:03 AM, bhoobesh <[email protected]> wrote: >> sir please tell me the any books for configuring dns server in centos > > Well I dunno about Centos. > > You need to edit zone files and so on. They have an arcane syntax.
That is only if you want bind to be SOA for a specific domain. Otherwise, no changes needed for a cache only name server. Do "chkconfig named on" named could be bind - not sure about CentOS> But the OP was *absolutely* ambigous about what s/he wants. > > In OpenBSD you have a chrooted named that drops privileges and runs securely > with a non root user ID. > > Everything is preconfigured. > > All you need to do is have a line > > named_conf="" > > in /etc/rc.conf.local file. > > And reboot. > > You get a fully functional DNS server. You mean I don't need to setup _any_ files if I want to be setup a DNS server for say "intra.example.com" which has 'x' no. of hosts on Intranet my network? -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
