Re: DNS for beginners?

[Per Niila Albinsson <per@ruokto.com>]

More information about setting up bind:

Simple DNS Configuration Guide
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-192.html

Bind 9 Comfiguration Guide
http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf


/Per Niila


Gary wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone suggest any good docs covering setting up DNS on OpenBSD
> please? I'm setting up a web/mail server for co-location and really this
> is the only part holding me back.
> 
> I have the O'Reilly TCP/IP book (excellent) which goes into a lot of
> detail - but my questions are probably to obvious to be covered in it.
> 
> Example - does the box need to be a master zone server set to a real
> world domain name? I.e. lets say I own several domains domain1.com,
> domain2.net, domain3.org etc, all of which have their own website.
> 
> If the box's hostname is 'fred' then does it need to be in one of the
> real domains ie fred.domain1.com  ? And if so - can domain1.com still
> serve a website?
> 
> # uname -a
> OpenBSD fred.domain1.com 3.4 GENERIC#0 i386
> 
> as above and if so would I then use ns.domain1.com as the nameserver for
> all my domains?
> 
> Also alas I can't test this at home with my cable connection because my
> domain registrars won't allow me to set an IP only nameserver for any of
> my domain names.
> TIA, Gary