Hi- Learning BIND8

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed May 31 00:50:15 UTC 2000


Fresh Dope wrote:

> Hi-
> I have read the NT version of "The Book" and am familiar with DNS concepts
> and have been successfully running forward and reverse zones for several
> small domains under NT.
>
> I now want to use BIND8 on a *nix, and like I said I am familiar with DNS,
> but have no idea on the syntax and format of BIND8 configuration and zone
> files. So- do I have to re-buy and re-read "The Book" just to get the BIND8
> syntax or is there somewhere else I can turn to learn that? Even if I could
> just look at a simple (one or two zone) file I think I could figure out the
> syntax.
> Any suggestions?

Just download the "doc" tarball from the BIND distribution. There's a bunch of
HTML pages describing all of the various elements of the configuration file,
and even an example config.


- Kevin





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