Re: need help setting up named

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

DO NOT, compile it yourself, unless you are familiar with the compilation
switches.

Use the prebuilt RPM's instead. (and then only if you are upgrading). They
are correctly configured for RH5.1.

If you use the SRC RPM's and compile yourself, the defaults will be set to
what the original defaults were, not to those used by RH5.1. You must use
the build switches to correct this.

Furthermore  YOU must manually create the files in the /var/named directory.

Read the DNS howto's as this is a pretty involved topic.

Optionally pick up a book, so you can go over the intricacies before you
attempt the configuration.

While it is not difficult, there are a few choices which you need to make,
that require you to be pre-informed...

-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Alen Vance <nfn11988 naples net>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Monday, September 28, 1998 10:21 PM
Subject: need help setting up named


>I trying to set up named so I can do local DNS. I can get named loaded with
>a ndc start tail -f /var/log/messages but if I look at the
>/var/log/,essages file it says the following:
>
>Sep 28 22:11:14 monster1 named[752]: NSTATS 907035074 907034585 A=1
>Sep 28 22:11:14 monster1 named[752]: XSTATS 907035074 907034585 RR=0
>RNXD=0 RFwdR=0 RDupR=0 RFail=0 RFErr=0 RErr=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0
>SSysQ=0 SAns=1 SFwdQ=0 SDupQ=0 SErr=0 RQ=1 RIQ=0 RFwdQ=0 RDupQ=0 RTCP=0
>SFwdR=0 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=1 SNXD=0
>Sep 28 22:11:21 monster1 named[818]: starting.  named 4.9.7-REL Mon Sep
>28 20:07:42 EDT 1998 ^Iroot monster1:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bind-4.9.7/named
>Sep 28 22:11:21 monster1 named[818]: root.cache: No such file or directory
>Sep 28 22:11:21 monster1 named[818]: pz/127.0.0: No such file or directory
>Sep 28 22:11:21 monster1 named[819]: Ready to answer queries.
>
>It also says this on the command line after starting named:
>Name Server Started
>named (no pid file) not running
>
>I don't know if it is running. Even if it is I doubt that is working. It
>says in the HOW-TO that root.cache should be in the /var/named directory.
>But after installing bind-4.9.7.src.rpm (I don't know if that is the
>exact name, but I got it off the RedHat 5.1 cd). The installation seemed
>to go fine, but I think that RedHat wants to put files in different
>places than the HOW-TO says they should be. I don't know about any one
>else but I think that sticking to standards can only help a distribution.
>I am not saying that RedHat is not following standards, I may be doing
>something wrong. If all the distributions put config files in the same
>directories it will only help people get things working uder Linux and be
>able to work on any distribution without having to figure out where
>Debian puts this and RedHat puts this. That's just my two cents.
>
>Basically I just need to know where to put root.cache and where and
>really what is the pz/127.0.0 file for?
>
>Keith
>nfn11988 naples net
>
>You only get one chance at life, but if you do it right, you only need one.
>
> http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988
>
>
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