DNS Server woes

[Nancy Sollars]

I think the best place is the named or bind howto really the guy who wrote
that one should have got a medal.

Nige

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Alexander" <m@netpro.to>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: DNS Server woes


> Since they're almost certainly running BIND, this has little to do with
> "Linux", per se.  How much experience have you had with BIND?  If not
> much, then you'll want to pick up a book on it real soon, or at least have
> Google nearby as a reference.  You'll want to locate named.conf (the main
> config file) and find where they store their zone files.  It's probably
> located at /etc/named.conf.  Look for a line near the top that has:
>
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>
> This directory stores your zone files.  Your zone files contain the
> forward name-to-IP mappings and possibly the reverse too, if this company
> owns their own IP block and manages it themselves.  Like most *nix things,
> there's nothing really complicated about BIND, as long as you know how it
> works.  ;-)
> And in a worse case scenerio, you could probably post any questions you
> have to this list and we might be able to help (although Google has yet to
> let me down).
> ~M
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dr. G wrote:
>
> > My company is having problems with a DNS server down in Yuma and will be
> > shortly calling me so I can tech it (woo! Finally a Linux issue I can
playw
> > ith on a "professional" level) Can anyone reccommend a good site to go
to
> > for information on Setup/troubleshooting a Linux DNS Server? I don't
have
> > any of my books here because at admin we are Windows only.
> >
> > I dont know what flavor of linux or kernel o anything for that matter
other
> > then its a Linux DNS server, they will let me know that information when
> > they get off lunch (pfft.)
> >
> >
> > This should be fun! No, really! I mean it! heh.
> >
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