setting my own named server

slack66 · 11-10-2004, 09:42 PM

hi

iam new too openbsd 3.6 and i want to setup a dns server of my own,
can any one teach me the right setup..... what configuration files can i edit and the right location will i put the files?? thks

kxebs · 11-11-2004, 02:29 AM

If you read the manpage of named then you can see what the default configuration file is.

And so far I know has FreeBSD the whole DNS server documented in it's handbook. You can use this documentation, but you'll have to keep in mind that some things could be different (I don't think it is much, but it's possible)

chort · 11-11-2004, 03:30 AM

OpenBSD uses a heavily patched distribution of BIND. It's chroot'd to /var/named by default. Nothing else is really specific to OpenBSD, so it's just a matter of learning BIND (which is definintely not trivial). Search Google for BIND tutorials, since it's way too complicated to explain neatly in a single post.

gani · 11-12-2004, 11:03 PM

Hope these can help:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=244149

http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/

I combined this howto with my Red Hat Linux adminstration book. I'm sure that howto will help you. Just be patient. I suggest that you print this whole howto and read it first. Learning is not always as easy as 1-2-3 and A-B-C.

The last link can easily be searched via google with "DNS HOWTO" key words.

slack66 · 11-14-2004, 10:13 PM

thk u! guys

this is my first time to setup bind and i hope it will work smoothly

thks again

no guts! no glory!

urlgrey · 11-15-2004, 08:18 PM

If you're using pf, remember to open port 53 UDP if you intend to serve DNS (either as a SOA or as a resolver) for others outside your network; if you intend to allow zone transfers, you'll likely need to open 53 TCP, too.

Aside from that, getting DNS to run as a resolver is cake . Just change the NO to "" in /etc/rc.conf, and bind will start automatically on reboot. If you want to be a SOA for domain(s), the links the prior user recommended are great places to start IMHO.

Good luck!

chort · 11-15-2004, 08:52 PM

You need to open up 53/TCP regardless of whether you're going to offer zone transfers. It's an extremely common misconception about DNS that only zone transfers use TCP. In fact, the DNS protocol will fall back to TCP if the information being transferred is too large for a single UDP datagram.