Re: Bind Help

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Thom Paine wrote:

> I prevously had trouble creating the proper zone files for the domains
> I have on my server, and I'm just about to replace the hard drives in
> my machine and an reinstalling RHEL3 from scratch. It's my personal
> server, and I don't mind, and before I used webmin to create the zone
> files and set up the domains. I would prefer to not install webmin on
> my main server and would like to learn how to do it properly either by
> editing text files directly or using the provided gui.
>
> Does anyone have a good tutorial specific to RHEL3 that will guide me in this?

The RHEL-3 System Administration Guide (or perhaps the reference guide..?)
has a small section on using redhat-config-nameserver.  This utility
assumes you understand the DNS basics.

For the basics and bit of understanding, you may want to peruse the
DNS-HOWTO before starting: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

The _DNS and BIND_ book by O'Reilly is also helpful and available in
Safari.

That all said, is there a reason you can't just make a backup of the named
zone files created by webmin and just reuse them?  They'd probably be
found someplace in /var/named, but /etc/named.conf will have the exact
location in it.

HTH,
-n
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