Setting up BIND by new user

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cv5cre$16ah$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Murray Nelson <picker at guitarlesson.tv> wrote:

> Thank you for your reply jett. Your reference you sent me is for Red 
> Hat. I am using BIND on W2K. So I am guessing I need to create a file 
> called mansions.com.db. And put it in DNS/ETC ????? along with 
> named.conf  and rdnc.key

In the options section of named.conf you should specify a directory, and 
that's the directory where all the other files should be stored:

options {
  directory "C:/dns/etc";
  ...
};

You *really* need to get yourself a copy of the DNS & BIND book.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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