BIND 8.2.4 question

[Kevin Darcy]

kirsenet at hotmail.com wrote:

> I am interested in starting up a small web-hosting (virtual domain)
> server.  I fully understand how to configure Apache and my FTP server.
>  The only problem is I have always used a dynamic-DNS service to point
> to my single domain (I used to have dynamic IP cable).  Now that I'm
> at this point, I have little idea on how to administer my own
> nameserver.  I understand BIND is the tool to do so, but can't
> understand all this named.conf, zone files, A, CNAME, MX, forwarders,
> blah blah...  Any ideas?  I've been reading all these confusing BIND
> HOWTOs (which assume I know all this A, CNAME, TTL stuff).  If anyone
> has a good link to setting up a basic nameserver (using BIND for
> Linux), or a suggested book to read, I would very much appreciate it!
> Thanks,

_DNS_and_BIND_, 4th Edition, from O'Reilly. It's the "bible" for
DNS & BIND...


- Kevin