newbie need help to confrigure own DNS

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Apr 27 09:10:34 UTC 2007


On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:27:03PM +0530,
 J.Bakshi <joydeep at infoservices.in> wrote 
 a message of 55 lines which said:

> now I have a domain called 

Called what?

> which is pointed to my remote root server. 

Please do not use "root server" which is very confusing when it comes
to DNS (the "root servers" are the 13 machines that serve the root
zone). Just say "my server".

> now What can I do with bind and webmin to utilise the domain ?

You must learn DNS and BIND. The paper reference is Liu & Albitz "DNS
and BIND" (O'Reilly editor). The online source are: 

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/arm93
http://www.bind9.net/

Some possible tutorials are:

http://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/
http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_DNS_with_BIND



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