BIND 9.2.3 on Windoze 2000 Professional setup

[Ed Watts]

Thanks, all. Adding the named.conf file got the service started.
Bellsouth's news server was offline for maintenance, so it took
me a while to check back.

"Danny Mayer" <mayer at gis.net> wrote in message
news:ce9534$88t$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> At 07:45 AM 7/28/2004, Stefan Puiu wrote:
> >You can find the path where BIND was installed by looking in
> >HKLM/ISC/BIND/InstallDir. BIND will look for its configuration file
> >under InstallDir\etc\, unless you tell it otherwise. Also, sometime the
> >output sent to the event log can be helpful in debugging startup issues
> >(and not only those) - see the Aplication log for BIND messages. Usually
> >you'll see 4 warnings coming up on each startup (they are about
> >unimplemented functions), you can safely ignore them, look for errors.
>
> The main item you need is to include the directory directive in the
options
> which points to where the files are for the zones, usually the same
> directory as the named.conf file/
>
> Danny
>
> >Vinny Abello wrote:
> >
> > >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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