dns bind 9.2.1 not working on Windows XP ?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote in message news:atrb4f$dmpp$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I downloaded the binary kit for windows NT/2000 from this website:
> > >
> > > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html
> > >
> > > I unpacked it and installed it without modifieing anything.
> >
> > Well that's your problem.  You didn't configure it.
> > 'named' requires a configuration file.
> 
> Well duh.
> 
> Someone, I wont say who, said it who run out of the box.

	No version of named will run w/o a config file.  The simplest
	config file is a empty file which is a caching server open to
	everybody using the Internet's root servers.

	Mark
--
Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org