Hello, I've been using FreeBSD as a local nameserver (with my own .local domains!) for quite some time. FreeBSD comes with a name server already installed; you don't need to get it from the ports, although I'm not sure what difference it makes. The one that comes with FreeBSD can be enabled with named_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. The configuration files are in /etc/namedb/.
Getting a book about BIND really helps learning it. The examples are especially useful. BIND can be a little daunting to learn, but it all clicks in the end. If you want to use BIND for mass hosting, you can consider hooking BIND up to MySQL or a similar database. I haven't personally tried it, so I cannot vouch for it to work. It may be what you're looking for, though. You can have a look at this link: http://mysql-bind.sourceforge.net/. Hopefully, this helps. Sincerely, Kevin Zheng _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"