DNS Setup

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:37, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:00, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:
> > 
> >>I've tried unsuccessfully to set up a DNS server using the GUI (or any other
> >>method).  I add a domain, a host record, save and restart named and when I
> >>try to resolve the name it says it can't find it.
> >>
> >>Can someone point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > 
> > In addition to creating the zone files you will need to point your
> > machine to that DNS server.  You do that in the /etc/named.conf file via
> > the nameserver statements.
> 
> Scot means /etc/resolv.conf, not /etc/named.conf of course...
> 

The danger of reading email and participating on a conference call at
the same time.  :)

You are correct, that should have been resolv.conf.

> > The bible for setting up DNS servers is the O'Reilly book DNS and Bind
> > (isbn 1-56592-010-4).  Highly recommend you get a current copy of this
> > book.  Mine is from 1993 and is heavily dog eared.  :)
> 
> So is mine...
> 
> Paul.
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