Good Mornig to all...

I hope I find someone who can help me out.... I read allready so much things about it, and I think I'am getting everytime even more confused that I was befor


I try to set up a simple DNS/BIND Server for my local network.
So that if anyone in the network ask/ping for a name it will find it and return the IP.
I cant get it working.... (bysd, It's a NT domain, but I think thats shouldnt be a problem. If I indicate on the NT machine for exemple the DNS Server wich will be Linux...)

Can anybody try to explain how exactly this could be made...

Thanks a lot...

Regards

PS: For all, my Modem Problem is solved.. THANK TO ALL
But I didn get any Internal or USB Modem working... I got a Serial Modem and it worked straight away...!

I installed BIND9 a couple of times, maybe i can help. But need to know your problem. Please provide more info.

Hi DIYLinux...
My problem is actually that I cant get i working .... Probably I'am a little confused with all the Primary, Mater, Slave, Caching only, etc...
How must I start, if I simply want my Linux Server to be a DNS for the Network where I indicate on all the Workstation that the linux is the primary DNS-Server. And on this Server I tell him all the IP's from the Network and give them Names, so that if I somewhere in the Network ping to a Name it will reply with the IP and vice versa....

Thanks

If you selected BIND while installing RH9, it will be started automaticaly. You can check if it is running with the command

ps aux | grep named

Next, you should check if bind is listening on port 53. Read the manual (i believe it will be installed in /usr/share/doc/bind) and check /etc/named.conf.

Then check the zone files. I only have HP-UX'es available at the moment, but do remember the zone files are somewhere under /var. Make sure you have two files for each zone. One for forward resolution, containing A type records (you are using IP4 ? for IP6 you have AAA records). The file should start with a Start Of Authority record. The second file is for reverse lookup (IP -> hostname), and must contain PTR records. The PTR records must refer to A records in the forward file. Not that the default zone files are good templates, start with them.

Now you need to tell bind to reread the configuration. Search for a small (1..4kB) script called bind or named in a subdirectory of /sbin. Check if it is a script (file or less command), Run it with option reread (i think).

Thanks...
Until now I ve worked with th GUI from GNOME for the configuration.
Lets start a little earlier...
What do I define as Master, Slave, Name Server and what as Caching Only...?
Did you have worked with the GUI before ?

You can try toread DNS HOWTO from http://www.tldp.org .

Thanks for the tip...

I have never worked with GUIs for DNS. Editing the configuration with a text editor is pretty easy, as long as you start with a good template for the zone data.

You probably need some help with DNS terminology.

Master - DNS server with authorative data.
Slave - Server that gets the data it distributes from master server(s). Does not provide its own data
Cache only - kind of slave server, used to increase performance and reliability.

Your Linux server is going to contain authorative data for your zone. (A zone is a domain that is managed by a single adnmin/organisation). You are also likely to have your DNS server forward DNS requests for domains outside your zone to your ISPs DNS server.

important files and locations

/etc/named.conf

/var/named