Re: DNS for beginners?

[Jeff Derbyshire <jeffd@caicorp.com>]

Gary,

I have never had a problem with djbdns.  Its simple to set up and fast 
in name resolution.
I run it on both OpenBSD and linux boxes.
He also has some General DNS links.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

It takes me about an hour to install and setup.

Jeff

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
> 


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