AW: confused - can you clear the mud? - ignorant newbie

[Peer Stefan]

Hi Darren,

The first thing you have to do is to set up a named.conf. The common
location is /etc. You can find a very basic example in DNS and Bind (4th
edition) on pages 71 and 72. Within this configuration file you have the
so-called zone settings, e.g.:
 zone "movie.edu" in {
   type master;
   file "db.movie.edu";
 };
This directives declare this name-server as master for the movie.edu zone.
All the zone configuration (SOA-record, NS-records, MX-records, A-records,
CNAMEs et al) go in there. This zone enables you to do name lookups (e.g.
"dig www.movie.edu", if there is a record for www in the dv.movie.edu file),
but not to do reverse lookups. 
Go through "Chapter 4: Setting Up BIND" step-by-step. There are examples and
explanations for the configuration.
Hope this helps for the start.

regards,
Stefan Peer


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Von: Darren Robertson [mailto:darren at orcsoftware.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. November 2001 14:49
An: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Betreff: confused - can you clear the mud? - ignorant newbie



Hi.
I hope that you can help to explain things to me.

I have been reading the first few chapters of the DNS & BIND (O'Reilly) book
on and off for the last few weeks in an attempt to understand how to go
about setting up DNS at our site and all I seem to do is get more and more
confused.

Initially I thought that this would be easy as most of the hard work had
been done but  I can't seem to get out of the starting blocks.

Here is the situation.

About a year ago the company that I work for registered a domain:
orcsoftware.com which all satellite offices were (are) part of. Recently
they decided that it would be a good idea if there was a sub domain of
orcsoftware.com for each satellite office, in my case
London.orcsoftware.com.

I thought that as I already had a sun box that could do an nslookup that I
wouldn't have to do much more to get this set up as a DNS server......

I have been able to download BIND 9.1.3 and believe that I have this
installed correctly - there were no errors reported during the ./configure
or make steps of the installation.

But no matter how many times I try to make sense of the next steps I just
can't - I've tried taking some time away from the project hoping that coming
back fresh might help but it hasn't can anyone try explaining things so that
everything may click into pace?

I'm sorry for asking what is probably a simple question but I just cant get
my head round this at the moment.

Apologies and thanks in advance.

D.
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