newbie need help to confrigure own DNS

[Dave Henderson]

If you can provide the contents of your bind configuration files, I would be better at seeing where the problems lie.
What is your domain name (fully qualified ie www.domainname.com) and what if the address of the server you are wanting it to point to?

Dave


"J.Bakshi" <joydeep at infoservices.in> wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:27:03PM +0530,
>  J.Bakshi  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
>
>   

My thanks and respect to Stephane Bortzmeyer for his  helpful guidance
and the links.