Re: bind

[Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>]

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote:

> I instaled "bind" pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network
> (to learn how setup it).
> 
> Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web
> page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I
> have to kill it,becouse it newer open that page). If I stop the deamon
> "named" and re-run Netscape,it works fine.
> 
> I supose that's a problem due to DNS server, thus I want know how can I
> say to DNS server the IP/name of the computers that are into the local
> area network?
> 
> I just installed "bind" pakage and say it that DNS server is in my own
> computer.

You'll need to read the documentation on bind or the
excellent O'Reilly books on the subject.

At minimum, you'll need to define a named.hosts file.  Test
your configuration with nslookup.

-- 
Jean Pierre



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