DNS newbie

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9odm1l$2di at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Pons, Eric <PonsE at investorservices.net> wrote:
>Forgive my ignorance, I have been reading the O'Reilly book DNS & BIND. It
>has not shined much light however for what I need to do. I have downloaded
>BIND 8.2.4 but I do not want to use it as a DNS for my local network. My

If you're starting from scratch, so don't have to worry about compatibility
issues, why are you using BIND 8 instead of BIND 9?

>boss wishes to continue to use WINS for local name resolution but wishes me
>to build a DNS box to handle all internet name resolution. Right now I only
>have the default zone files that BIND came with. Could someone perhaps point
>me in the right direction as to how to set this up?
>Thank you very much for your time and support.

The default configuration will do Internet name resolution.  You only need
to add zone files if you want the server to host domains of its own.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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