BIND

BenChase · 12-15-2003, 11:51 PM

Does anyone know where to find BIND, as in the DNS server in Slackware 9.1? I've looked in /etc and can't find any configuration file for it. When I enter 'man bind', I get a manpage for what looks like a C bind function, rather than the DNS daemon.

Am I missing something here?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Ben

ugob · 12-16-2003, 12:13 AM

maybe try installing webmin, you can have a visual config of bind this way. Good for starters. IIRC, the config files are in /var/named. Not sure though

BenChase · 12-16-2003, 12:26 AM

Looks like I found the configuration files....

Question update -

I'd like to configure my Slackware box to cache DNS information from my ISP's DNS servers. Which configuration files to I need to edit (and read the manpages on)?

I have some familiarity with DNS A records, MX records, etc..but obviously never setting it up on a Linux box.

As always,

Thanks.

Tarts · 12-16-2003, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BenChase
Does anyone know where to find BIND, as in the DNS server in Slackware 9.1? I've looked in /etc and can't find any configuration file for it. When I enter 'man bind', I get a manpage for what looks like a C bind function, rather than the DNS daemon.

Am I missing something here?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Ben

Take a look at:

'man 8 ypbind'

the files it uses are listed in there.

Tarts

{edit}

Oppps, not what I thought it was. Ignore this post please.

ugob · 12-16-2003, 12:28 AM

This usually simply means allowing recursive queries...

ugob · 12-16-2003, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tarts
Take a look at:

'man 8 ypbind'

the files it uses are listed in there.

Tarts

bind is a dns server

ypbind is another thing, related to NIS.

Two different things.

BenChase · 12-16-2003, 12:43 AM

All I can say after using Linux for the past two days now is:

Long Live the Command Line!

I started playing with computers right around the time of DOS 3.0. Remember the BBS days before the internet was in its present form? Remember gopher? LOL, man, those were the days....it was a lot of fun back then.

Are there still BBS's online anywhere that are useful and/or interesting?

I forgot how fun running a system from a command line was until I started playing with Slackware.

Woo hoo

BenChase · 12-16-2003, 12:46 AM

Thanks for the info..I'm sure I'll have this working in no time.

ugob · 12-16-2003, 08:27 AM

good. There might be good tutorial on bind on the internet. It is not really easy to configure zone for the first time, that is why I suggested webmin for the first time, then look at your files...

theSuperJason · 12-17-2003, 08:14 PM

The default BIND installation includes the necessary config for a caching only nameserver. If you have a look at /etc/named.conf you'll see a section that looks like:

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "caching-example/named.ca";
};

The 'caching-example/named.ca' lives in /var/named/caching-example/named.ca.

Just fire up BIND:

# named

And point your clients to the local IP of the nameserver.

I found this link really useful:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

Jason

BenChase · 12-17-2003, 11:56 PM

Thanks guys, I got it working last night.

However, I'm getting Syslog messages that state things such as:

named[2136]: lame server resolving 'www.linuxquestions.com' (in 'linuxquestions.com'?): 212.100.230.160 (www.ultimatesearch.com) #53

What is "lame server?"

ugob · 12-18-2003, 12:02 AM

little google search:

http://www.mail-archive.com/isp-linu.../msg04188.html