/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't recall where ...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: : [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] : : Hi, : : I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box. : I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box. : : I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the : whois record) for my domain name. The entries for the various things in my : domain would be pretty simple. Only one 'A' record for foo.org Everything : else would (at the moment) be CNAME records pointing to the A record. : : I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when : I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an : nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) : all queries time out. : : Would greatly appreciate step by step instructions (or pointers to step by : step instructions) on how to set up a primary domain name server on Debian. : : Thanks a lot. : : Thaths : -- : "English. Pfft. Who needs that? I'm never going to England." : -- Homer J. Simpson : Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave : : : -- : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
