Thanks for the reply.
I've checked out the files and as far as I can see its fine. But, saying
that, I could
be missing something obvious. If your offer of posting some working files
still stands,
I would really appreciate it. I can at least do a compare to see if
something is amiss..
My goal for the DNS server is to allow the other hosts on the same lan to be
able
to get to other hosts by the 'friendly' name. It makes life alot easier than
maintaining
individual host files on each machine.
d
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Carville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 January 2001 15:15
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2 and DNS Server
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Martin, Debi (REO) wrote:
- Hi,
-
- I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure
the
- machine as a DNS
- server.
-
- Can anyone here help ?
-
- I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type
nslookup
- on the command
- line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not
even
- using the 5 second
- timeout before the error message comes up.
Make sure named is running. If not, start it (/etc/init.d/named
start) and watch the output in /var/log/messages. I use tail -f for
this. You would be surprised how often this is the problem :-)
Try using dig instead of nslookup. Dig provides much better
information on how a request was processed so debugging is easier
Frankly. I advise ignoring Linuxconf for DNS. It is a nice tool for
some things but it sucks for DNS administration. Some people have
reported good results with webmin but I have never used it.
At the very least, read the DNS-Howto. It will step you thru the
basics of setting up a caching only server and a simple domain server.
If you have to admin a large domain or a number of domains (or your
employer will pay for it), get a copy of DNS and Bind from O'Reilly.
The third edition is a little dated but it will still save you a lot
of headaches.
Check out the ISC website: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
If necessary, I can post some working files you can use as a template
but I need to know something about your goal.
--
--Stephen Carville
http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
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