DNS setup

[Ken Ebling]

On Jul 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Alan Curtis wrote:

>
> On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
>
>
>> If you want examples I can provide you some.
>>
>> Then let me know if you want option 1) or 2) so I can help you  
>> with the
>> next step.
>>
>> 1) Have an independent DNS server on each machine (there is one for
>>    Windows called TreeWalk - free -, that is the same as named).
>>
>> 2) Put a DNS server on *one* machine, and that DNS server is used  
>> by all
>>    the machines on the network.
>>
>>
>
> I would like to implement 2.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Alan

It's pretty easy to get working on FreeBSD 5.3.  This is how I'd do it:

1) cd /etc/named

2) sh make-localhost

3) echo "named_enable=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf  (note two double  
quotes after "YES\" and two ">")

4) edit /etc/namedb/named.conf to suit your needs.  (you'll probably  
need to change the "listen-on" directive to add the IP address of  
your machine, because it's defaulted to 127.0.0.1, which means bind  
won't be listening on the network interface.)

5) /etc/rc.d/named start

  That's it.  Now your machines can be configured to use that system  
as their primary name server.

You may still want  to do some things, like disallow other people  
from using your name servers, by only enabling "recursion" for your  
machines.

You can find detailed instructions on configuring recursion here:   
http://www.netadmintools.com/art234.html

Ken Ebling