BIND 9.2.3 on Windoze 2000 Professional setup

[Vinny Abello]

Where did you install BIND to on your Windows box? I think it defaults to 
C:\Winnt\System32\DNS

You need to create a named.conf file and put it in C:\Winnt\System32\DNS\etc

That's also where your zone files go (basically). All the executables are 
in C:\Winnt\System32\DNS\Bin

I prefer to put them in C:\Bind instead of the default path, but that's 
just me. You'll find that the stability of 9.2.3 is not very good under 
higher loads on Windows. You'll want the latest 9.2.4rc version to fix this.

At 07:46 PM 7/27/2004, you wrote:
>  I'm trying to set up BIND 9.2.3 on Windoze 2000 Professional.
>  (The port exists, buried in the FAQ.)
>  ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/
>
>  The service (daemon) is installed, but won't start. This is no
>  surprise, since the configuration files haven't been set up.
>
>The existing documentation seems very sketchy to me.  There is
>info on different configurations, but few clues about the filenames
>where these lines should be added  -- named.conf doesn't seem
>to exist anywhere on the system.
>
>Has anybody out there done this?  I know there would be a lot of
>advantages to just setting up a *NIX box for DNS, but I'm not really
>up to speed on that, although I am starting to build some BSD systems.
>
>  I confess to being a complete BIND newbie, but I really have tried to
>puzzle this out the best I could. If anybody knows of a cookbook for
>BIND on Windoze, that would be extremely helpful


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