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can anyone help me on the collect way of setting up a DNS server? i treid doing it ma self but it failed to start. sorry i'm a new guy in this and i desperatly need skills in this. I want to set up a kind intranet with say domain students.net. i'm a 4th course student who has got alot of interest in linux. your help is vital in my life. thnx
Distribution: Debian for Sparc, OpenSUSE 11.2, Solaris 9, Debian/x86, Ubuntu Server
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DNS Installation
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Originally Posted by janniez
can anyone help me on the collect way of setting up a DNS server? i treid doing it ma self but it failed to start. sorry i'm a new guy in this and i desperatly need skills in this. I want to set up a kind intranet with say domain students.net. i'm a 4th course student who has got alot of interest in linux. your help is vital in my life. thnx
JannieZ: I would have to say that the best distro IMO to do what you are wanting would have to be Debian is it took me very little effort to get my DNS server functionality set up and I had it up and running in about 5 minutes, no fuss, no muss. Then again, that's just my experience.
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