Configuring DNS

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:24 +0000, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 12.29 12:26, David L. Gehrt wrote:
> > > I wish to add a secondary DNS server. Adding the IP address to the  
> > DNS
> > > section in system-config-network appears to work, but after saving
> > the
> > > config and rebooting, the newly-added IP address has vanished.
> > >
> > > So, what am I doing wrong?
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Check the zone file.  If the  address isn't there then the procedure
> > you
> > used didn't work, also make sure the process you used updated the
> > serial
> > number in the zone file.  When I ran DNS servers I used a Perl script
> > to
> > update the  serial number and most  of the zone  file updates,
> > including
> > adding authoritative  DNS servers, was accomplished  via manual
> > editing.
> > I  have never  used the  RedHat  whiz bang  scripts so  on your
> > precise
> > question I can be no help.
> 
> Such as  /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific? Looks like that's a binary  
> file, so no luck there.
> 

What would timezone info in /usr/share/zoneinfo/XXX  have to do with
DNS?

If you are running bind on FC the zone files are
in /var/named/chroot/var/named.  Those are your configuration files for
the named server.