Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1784 mails)

[chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Reeves)]

Message-ID: <3A389845.EFA65138@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:52:05 +0000
From: Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Setting up DNS [Was: ALL SUBSCRIBERS ADDRESS BOOK??????]



"Luckson Bwalya [Asst Head - System Dev & Sup]" wrote:
> 
> I am running SuSE 6.1 and I want to set DNS how can I do this?

Are you wanting to set up caching DNS or full DNS (full DNS being where
you have your own domain and IP address range...)?

The DNS-HOWTO actually explains all of this extremely well, and that's
where I learnt how to do it for the first time.

For caching DNS, the rpm basically configures itself. The only things I
changed for caching DNS were the 'forwarders {...' lines.

Setting up full DNS is slightly more complicated, but a basic
configuration can be quite easy, putting a few lines in /etc/named.conf
and creating a couple of zone files in /var/named with the DNS
information.

I think your best bet would be to read the DNS howto through, which
explains things very clearly (don't miss any bits out...).

If you need any more help, give us a shout,
        Chris

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