DNS Setup

[Paul Howarth]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:00, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:
> 
>>I've tried unsuccessfully to set up a DNS server using the GUI (or any other
>>method).  I add a domain, a host record, save and restart named and when I
>>try to resolve the name it says it can't find it.
>>
>>Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> 
> In addition to creating the zone files you will need to point your
> machine to that DNS server.  You do that in the /etc/named.conf file via
> the nameserver statements.

Scot means /etc/resolv.conf, not /etc/named.conf of course...

> The bible for setting up DNS servers is the O'Reilly book DNS and Bind
> (isbn 1-56592-010-4).  Highly recommend you get a current copy of this
> book.  Mine is from 1993 and is heavily dog eared.  :)

So is mine...

Paul.