Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the
way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't
recall where ...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
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: Hi,
:
: I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box.
: I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box.
:
: I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the
: whois record) for my domain name. The entries for the various things in my
: domain would be pretty simple. Only one 'A' record for foo.org Everything
: else would (at the moment) be CNAME records pointing to the A record.
:
: I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when
: I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an
: nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server)
: all queries time out.
:
: Would greatly appreciate step by step instructions (or pointers to step by
: step instructions) on how to set up a primary domain name server on Debian.
:
: Thanks a lot.
:
: Thaths
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