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List:       freebsd-doc
Subject:    Re: Bind
From:       Studded <Studded () dal ! net>
Date:       1998-08-24 20:26:57
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> Studded <Studded@dal.net> writes:
> >       That depends, what do you want to do with it?  FreeBSD comes with the
> > BIND package installed... if you want to set up a simple resolver the
> > info on doing that is in the handbook. Anything more complicated and you
> > should get the book "DNS and BIND, Second edition" from O'Reilly and
> > Associates press.
> 
> Unfortunately, the Cricket Book is now pretty useless since it
> describes the old configuration format. I had some success creating an
> old-style configuration file and converting it to the new format using
> the provided script, but it's kind of a hack and probably won't work
> for more complicated setups (I have a caching nameserver with reverse
> DNS for 127/8 and 10/8 and a fake forward DNS for ewox.org)

	The only thing out of date is the server configuration file format,
which is actually a small part of the book. The zone file format and DNS
theory haven't changed a bit. 

Doug
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