Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS server for users in my office. I've looked at all the HOWTOs out there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me explain what I want to set up.
You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf for us) when you specify a "Primary DNS Server" ... like so that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper page comes up? I want to set up one of those types of machines. I believe such a server is called a "resolver" or a "resolving and caching server" or something ... please correct me if I'm wrong, please. So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc and stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work and I was tired of the way the machine was working so I just set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a "DNS Server" (a setup option). "ps -le | more" (also "ps -le | grep named") show me that named is up and running. If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf, lynx will not be able to go to http://www.google.com (with a known, working DNS server it works just fine, though ... I know this machine can get on a network and everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this machine (192.168.10.249) as my "Primary DNS Server" in Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either. Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box setup of bind, but I can't figure out what I need to configure. Like what files do I need to configure to make this work? Maybe the root servers or something in db.root are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten pretty frustrating after a week or so. Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks! Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Christian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
