BIND 9.2.3 on Windoze 2000 Professional setup

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Jul 28 21:10:59 UTC 2004


At 07:45 AM 7/28/2004, Stefan Puiu wrote:
>You can find the path where BIND was installed by looking in
>HKLM/ISC/BIND/InstallDir. BIND will look for its configuration file
>under InstallDir\etc\, unless you tell it otherwise. Also, sometime the
>output sent to the event log can be helpful in debugging startup issues
>(and not only those) - see the Aplication log for BIND messages. Usually
>you'll see 4 warnings coming up on each startup (they are about
>unimplemented functions), you can safely ignore them, look for errors.

The main item you need is to include the directory directive in the options
which points to where the files are for the zones, usually the same
directory as the named.conf file/

Danny

>Vinny Abello wrote:
>
> >Where did you install BIND to on your Windows box? I think it defaults to
> >C:\Winnt\System32\DNS
> >
> >You need to create a named.conf file and put it in C:\Winnt\System32\DNS\etc
> >
> >That's also where your zone files go (basically). All the executables are
> >in C:\Winnt\System32\DNS\Bin
> >
> >I prefer to put them in C:\Bind instead of the default path, but that's
> >just me. You'll find that the stability of 9.2.3 is not very good under
> >higher loads on Windows. You'll want the latest 9.2.4rc version to fix this.
> >
> >At 07:46 PM 7/27/2004, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I'm trying to set up BIND 9.2.3 on Windoze 2000 Professional.
> >> (The port exists, buried in the FAQ.)
> >> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/
> >>
> >> The service (daemon) is installed, but won't start. This is no
> >> surprise, since the configuration files haven't been set up.
> >>
> >>The existing documentation seems very sketchy to me.  There is
> >>info on different configurations, but few clues about the filenames
> >>where these lines should be added  -- named.conf doesn't seem
> >>to exist anywhere on the system.
> >>
> >>Has anybody out there done this?  I know there would be a lot of
> >>advantages to just setting up a *NIX box for DNS, but I'm not really
> >>up to speed on that, although I am starting to build some BSD systems.
> >>
> >> I confess to being a complete BIND newbie, but I really have tried to
> >>puzzle this out the best I could. If anybody knows of a cookbook for
> >>BIND on Windoze, that would be extremely helpful
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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