Bind Newbie

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> I have recently installed BIND-8 using the Linux.org howto's.
> http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/DNS-HOWTO.html
> 
> It works fine, caches dns names etc... but you already knew that.
> 
> I have some machines on my personal domain, all using 192.168.1.x. I would
> like to resolve the names using DNS.

	You do it the same way as you would any other /24 (class C sized)
	network.

	Mark

/etc/named.conf:
options {
	...
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
	type master;
	file "192.168.1.db";
};

192.168.1.db:
$TTL 3600
@	SOA ...
@	NS ...
1	PTR ...
2	PTR ...
...
245	PTR ....

> 
> I do not know how to do it. (Yes, I have searched the archives but cannot
> find something simular, obviously not searching for the correct string ;-/)
> 
> I gather I need to add a file in /var/named/ with the list of names of my
> private machines. Has anybody got an example I can view? I think this also
> requires changing named.conf to tell it where to find this file? Is this
> correct?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brett Hales
> 
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