Private network DNS setup problems

[Dave Kaylor]

I did copy it over to my NT machine but do not remember editing it, but must
have been the case of lossing track of where you are :)  Anyway, DNS is
running fine now and I am off to trying to get SAMBA configured.

Thanks to all for the help.

Dave

Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:Pr5R3.78$J44.3605 at burlma1-snr2...
> In article <7v2hf3$8gt$1 at eve.enteract.com>,
> Dave Kaylor <dkaylor at poboxes.com> wrote:
> >oooh!  Reply to group worked !
> >
> >Just want to update, I went in and found the syslog (thanks to the group)
> >and found an error with "ndc restart".  It showed there was an error in
the
> >named.conf file "near ^M" which was confusing to me.  All I could figure
was
> >that there was an invisible (control) character embedded in the file.  I
> >deleted named.conf and rewrote it and all worked.  There werre only a few
> >problems afterward but they went quickly with the use of the syslog.
>
> ^M characters usually result from editing a file on a Windows machine and
> then transfering it to Unix in binary mode rather than ASCII mode.
> DOS/Windows using ^M^J as the line break sequence, but Unix just uses ^J,
> so the ^M is treated as an ordinary character by Unix.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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