Re: [LUG] dns howto

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Kew wrote:
> If that's all you need, you can just enter it in /etc/hosts on machines
> that need to know that name - no need for a DNS server.

I have a script lurking somewhere that takes a Linux box with
BIND 9 compiled from source (or otherwise installed in
/usr/local/bin where it now lives ;), and turns it into a
caching only name server, start up scripts, rndc.conf files,
secrets, and the like.

But I fear if you don't understand the basics it will only
confuse.

Redhat's own named start up scripts left me cold, too complex,
too difficult to modify...

> Otherwise, it's too complex for a brief on-list answer, but you may
> well find a modern implementation friendlier than the classic BIND
> (from the early days of Unix).  I use djbdns from http://cr.yp.to/

Modern - I thought it was older than BIND 9 ;)

Nick and I have had this discussion somewhere before - search
for DNS, Nick Kew and Simon Waters in deja.com.... ;)

Suffice to say I'll help you with BIND 9, Nick will help you
with djbdns, and others will have to help if you go with BIND 8
but Redhat now ships BIND 9....

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