Re: DNS Server Setup?
Hi,
I found an easy document on the homepage of RedHat. Search there for
it. If you want to take a look at my files (which still do not work
perfectly for every computer on the world), mail me privately. It is
really simple to set up a simple server.
Greetzm
Sebastiaan
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS server for
> users in my office. I've looked at all the HOWTOs out
> there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me
> explain what I want to set up.
>
> You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf for us)
> when you specify a "Primary DNS Server" ... like so
> that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper page
> comes up? I want to set up one of those types of
> machines. I believe such a server is called a
> "resolver" or a "resolving and caching server" or
> something ... please correct me if I'm wrong, please.
>
> So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc and
> stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work and I
> was tired of the way the machine was working so I just
> set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a "DNS
> Server" (a setup option).
>
> "ps -le | more" (also "ps -le | grep named") show me
> that named is up and running.
>
> If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf, lynx
> will not be able to go to http://www.google.com (with
> a known, working DNS server it works just fine, though
> ... I know this machine can get on a network and
> everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this
> machine (192.168.10.249) as my "Primary DNS Server" in
> Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either.
>
> Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box setup of
> bind, but I can't figure out what I need to configure.
> Like what files do I need to configure to make this
> work? Maybe the root servers or something in db.root
> are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten
> pretty frustrating after a week or so.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks!
>
> Please CC to christian@wnrg.com
>
> -Christian
>
>
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