Setting up own DNS

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:03:16PM -0700, Bill Manning wrote:
>> RH does ship with a couple of usable config files.
>> 
>> 	root.cache
>> 	localhost.zone.
>> 	0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.
>> 
>> with goofy redhat names... :)


Drop bindconf it's broken in more then one way.

( feel free to submit the chenges needed to get it working, 
it won't have any serious users but it might amuse tinkies :-)

Peter h

> I've just walked through setting up DNS on RH 7.1 [i think], with an
> admin who is used to the Unix way but really wanted to do it the GUI
> way.  OK.  Gnomeprint -> Programs -> System -> bindconf [or just say
> 'bindconf'].  You can do all the things you need for a simple zone
> file.  The files are named domain.name.zone instead of
> zone.domain.name, but who cares?  The SOA "name server" field must be a
> full name ending in '.', but NS, MX, CNAME, and similar records may be
> short names.  I saw no obvious noodges to make sure that NS and MX
> records are added, or to enforce any more correctness.  Only NS, MX, A,
> SOA, and CNAME records are allowed.

> This will notify a running 'named', but apprently not start it up.
> Since the admin didn't have 'linuxconf' [?], I had him do:
> 	chkconfig --level 235 named
> 	cd /; /etc/init.d/named start
> [Yes, I know that 'cd /' may be one of my superstitious rituals; we all
> have them.]
> [Yes, I know that 'chkconfig --level 235 named on' is documented to
> start it; it didn't, so I omitted it here.]

> This is obviously of limited applicability to non-RH users, but it may
> help some of those.

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> Joe Yao				jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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