Hi, I found an easy document on the homepage of RedHat. Search there for it. If you want to take a look at my files (which still do not work perfectly for every computer on the world), mail me privately. It is really simple to set up a simple server.
Greetzm Sebastiaan On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: > > 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 are out of date?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/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
