dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides it from the greater internet. I'm open to suggestions of a

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 24, 2004, at 8:14 AM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides it from the greater internet. I'm open to suggestions of a

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Steve, Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The manpage says, allow-transfer Specifies which hosts are allowed to receive zone

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Barner
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides it from the greater

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve, Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The manpage says, allow-transfer Specifies which hosts are allowed to receive

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. I'm working on synthesizing everything. I'm one step closer now. Alex On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:14 AM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a