Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 20:18:09 -0800, Michael Rohan wrote: > > Just a minor additional suggestion: since this is for a home network, you > probably have DNS servers supplied by your ISP. You should configure your > named server as a forwarder rather than doing your own full resolution, That

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-07 Thread Tim
Michael: >> Just a minor additional suggestion: since this is for a home network, >> you probably have DNS servers supplied by your ISP. You should >> configure your named server as a forwarder rather than doing your own >> full resolution, gms...@yahoo.com: > After cat /etc/resolve.conf, got thi

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Rohan
Hi, This is for named.conf, not resolv.conf Take care, Michael. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > Michael wrote: > > [ > Just a minor additional suggestion: since this is for a home network, you > probably have DNS servers supplied by your ISP. You should configure your > named server a

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-06 Thread gmspro
Michael wrote:[ Just a minor additional suggestion: since this is for a home network, you probably have DNS servers supplied by your ISP. You should configure your named server as a forwarder rather than doing your own full resolution, e.g., add   forward only;   forwarders {  

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Rohan
1/28/09, Seann Clark //* wrote: >> >> >>From: Seann Clark >>Subject: Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home) >>To: gms...@yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and >>advice for using Fedora." >>Date: Wednesday, Janua

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-02-05 Thread Seann Clark
Clark Subject: Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home) To: gms...@yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 10:35 PM gms...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, > Typing this "rpm -q bind&q

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:14:58 -0600, > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: >> He may also find that dnsmasq, witch is in the repository >> (dnsmasq-2.45-1.fc10.i386) may do the job, and is much simpler to >> set up then bind. > > That's a forwarder isn't it? > > (When I wa

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:14:58 -0600, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > He may also find that dnsmasq, witch is in the repository > (dnsmasq-2.45-1.fc10.i386) may do the job, and is much simpler to > set up then bind. That's a forwarder isn't it? (When I was listing DNS server types I forgot to

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > For a general overview of DNS, DJB's pages (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) > are probably a better start. Though he should note that neither tinydns > nor dnscache are in Fedora, so he probably isn't going to want to use > because of the extra work involved. > > You respo

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Tom Horsley
> Can anyone explain the file contents in detail and about named.ca? > And what I have to do in step by step to set up a dns server ? http://magazine.redhat.com/2006/11/16/how-to-set-up-a-home-dns-server/ http://magazine.redhat.com/2006/12/15/dns/ Those are some slightly old redhat magazine artic

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:35:30 -0600, Seann Clark wrote: > I hate to plug books, but this may be the easiest way to get an good > explanation to a home user of the components on a DNS server. Check out > http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0596100574 Which is the DNS BIND book, > which is a

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Seann Clark
gms...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Typing this "rpm -q bind" got this: bind-9.5.1-0.8.b2.fc10.i386 In "named.conf file" I got this: // // named.conf // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only).

Re: How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:06 -0800, gms...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Can anyone explain the file contents in detail and about named.ca? > And what I have to do in step by step to set up a dns server ? > you might find this useful http://www.brennan.id.au/ Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedo

How to set up a DNS server(at Home)

2009-01-28 Thread gmspro
Hi, Typing this "rpm -q bind" got this: bind-9.5.1-0.8.b2.fc10.i386 In "named.conf file" I got this: // // named.conf // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only). // // See /usr/share/doc/b