Req: Total beginners help - Win Q.

Techie nomail at here.not.easynews.com
Fri Dec 16 10:22:33 UTC 2005


Ok, this is about a setup on a windows box for the prupose of learning from 
scratch. I better say that flat out from the beginning not to offend anyone 
since I have noticed it's happend far to easily before.

Hence, I am here to learn. Not to step on peoples toes, and if that is to 
much, then I'm sorry but I not only want to learn, but I also have to 
learn.

We all learn by different methods and I learn by taking an example and 
breaking it own. Not by building an example from scratch without knowing 
what I'm doing.

Thus I am asking anyone willing to put about 15 minutes of effort in, to 
show me how to do this, so I can get something that may actually work, to 
bounce around with on my own.

I have been told off before, because I am using a Win box to set this up 
and play around with. I have been told by some in my city that they want 
£1,000 to set up a box for me doing just what I outline below. (Some 
horrendus people, but I guess it's their idea of making a living.)

What I simply need, to get in to this, may seem ridiculous to some, but 
hey, it's my way of learning, and if we where all the same, it would be a 
boring world to live in.

Enough of the appologetics and to the study case of mine...

This whole thing assumes I have run the installer on my XP can used for 
studies of any kind. It's not a distribution example but just for practical 
training anyway.

What I plan to achive:    	A Master (primary) DNS server setup

All names, zones and IP's are of course fictitious and for training 
purposes only.

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There are two domains.	

    MYMAINDOMAIN.COM
    SECONDDOMAIN.COM

    MYDOMAIN.COM has the following structure

        NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM        on    99.99.99.1
        NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM        on    99.99.99.2
        MAIL.MYDOMAIN.COM       on    99.99.99.1
        MAIL2.MYDOMAIN.COM      on    99.99.99.2
        MYDOMAIN.COM            on    99.99.99.1
        FTP.MYDOMAIN.COM        on    99.99.99.1

Of course, www.mydomain.com should also go to 99.99.99.1
The primary and secondary NS servers are self evident in this case.
I would also need a sample of the reverse lookup file for 1.99.99.99.in-
addr-arpa and 2.99.99.99.in-addr-arpa as well.

There is also the SPF record to consider.

    	"v=spf1 a mx ip4:99.99.99.1 ip4:99.99.99.2"


Now, the second domain have the following structure.

    	SECONDDOMAIN.COM is also located on 99.99.99.1

Subsequently www.SECONDDOMAIN.COM is there too.

    	FTP. SECONDDOMAIN.COM is also on 99.99.99.1

    	MAIL. SECONDDOMAIN.COM		on	99.99.99.1
    	MAIL2. SECONDDOMAIN.COM		on	99.99.99.2

The primary and secondary NS for this SECONDDOMAIN.COM is 

    	NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM.

Also here is the SPF record to consider.

    	"v=spf1 a mx ip4:99.99.99.1 ip4:99.99.99.2"


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Enough about the outline.

Could some kind soul please show me the contents and formatting of the 
required files, and the named.conf file needed to start BIND 9.3.1 
successfully, then I'll be out of everyones hair playing around by myself 
until I know what I'm doing.

Sincerely.
A total newbie.



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