"DNS and BIND" from O'Reilly - I've found this to be a priceless reference for setting BIND up. The latest version covers both 8 and 9 I believe.
And you're right, with BIND, except for a few path changes, Win32<->Linux<->BSD<->whatever is pretty much the same, so you can do it on whatever is your favorite OS, then change your mind if you want with a minimal learning curve. - Tony >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee >Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] BIND help me Len, please > > >I setup bind 9.x in 15 minutes. It is not brain surgery. Oh yea that was on >win2k. Add the secondary it took me another 30 minutes. > >Research of how to do the setup 1 work day. > >What is lacking when I was reasearching setting up DNS was some real >examples of the configuration files. It took some digging but I found them. >We chose BIND because if we decide to migrate to another platform >(Linux) we >would just need to move the config files and be done with it. > > >Kevin Bilbee > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "George Kulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:20 AM >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] BIND help me Len, please > > >> A great way to start for a DNS newbie on W2K is the very easy to set up, >> inexpensive, Simple DNS Plus from JH Software. >> >> When you look at all the time expended in the initial learning curve and >> the pressure to get something up and running that's done correctly, it's >> a no brainer. >> >> George >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mario >> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:47 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [IMail Forum] BIND help me Len, please >> >> >> >> >> Hi Len, >> >> >> I saw your Bind page and i have donwload ver 8.2.4, tomorrow I will set >> secondary nameserver and the target is use win2k for DNS. My problem is >> understand how install and configure Bind, it's my first time it's very >> importan I don't do errors because if NIC find error it deleted my >> registration (8 weeks errors) the problems I'm not mainterner and NIC >> don't tell me my error but tell to my minteiner, if my minteiner dones't >> tell me error I will have big problems. I hope in your help. >> >> Best Regards >> >> M >> >> >> >> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> to be removed from this list. >> >> An Archive of this list is available at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> >> Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >> questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> >> >> >> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> to be removed from this list. >> >> An Archive of this list is available at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> >> Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >> questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] > > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
