DNS newbie

[JOHNSON, ERIK *Internet* (PBI)]

>Forgive my ignorance, I have been reading the O'Reilly book DNS & BIND. It
>has not shined much light however for what I need to do. I have downloaded
>BIND 8.2.4 but I do not want to use it as a DNS for my local network. My
>boss wishes to continue to use WINS for local name resolution but wishes me
>to build a DNS box to handle all internet name resolution. Right now I only
>have the default zone files that BIND came with. Could someone perhaps
point
>me in the right direction as to how to set this up?


Is your new box running windows or unix/linux?

For *nix:

If you have BIND already installed, all you have to do is fire up named and
make sure your /etc/resolv.conf is configured with your localhost as the
primary server and you'll simply have a caching resolver that is not
authoritative over anything.  This differs slightly with different platforms
but is relatively simple.  This way you won't depend on your ISP for
everyday resolution.

For Windows:

I have no idea, but I'd assume the thing would probably become a resolver
just by installing it and running it....

-Erik Johnson

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