Simple DNS Configuration

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 24 July 2006 15:10, David Stanford wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> >  Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file.  You want the line for hosts to be:
> > dns files
> >
> > Also be sure named is running.  While it says it is starting do a:
> > ps -ax|grep name
> >
> >         -Derek
>
> Derek,
>
> nsswitch.conf hasn't been modified from the default:
> [root at chadwick ~]# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> group: compat
> group_compat: nis
> hosts: files dns
> networks: files
> passwd: compat
> passwd_compat: nis
> shells: files
>
> And I've been verifying named is running after every stop/start of the rc
> script:
> [root at chadwick ~]# ps aux|grep named
> bind      26207  4.1  0.2  4060  3328  ??  Ss    7:09PM
> 0:00.08/usr/sbin/named -t /var/named -u bind
> root      10645  0.0  0.0  1300   952  ??  Ss    6:09AM
> 0:02.08/usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s
>
> There has to be something I'm missing as I've set this is up in the exact
> same manner on a dev box at home using the same named.conf and master
> files, and still yield the same results.
>
> -David

I have the same problem as you trying to do that by hand. I even have the 
O'Reilly book on dns. As a suggestion, you might install webmin. It does a 
very good job managing bind. I even used it at an ISP I worked for and really 
liked it. We had 300+ virtual domains and editing all the files by hand was a 
nightmare when something changed.

just my .02

Beech
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