Need DNS help
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Sat Sep 18 02:48:04 UTC 2004
--On Saturday, September 18, 2004 3:08 AM +0200 Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Please read the docs. It was too explained in detail here on the list
> some month ago.
Also check the comp.protocols.dns.bind newsgroup (mirrored as the ISC BIND
mailing list). Googling that group should turn up lots of useful
information. You'll also find lots of useful links at the ISC BIND web page:
<http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/>
> Did you read the bind documentation? DNS is a fundamental service and
> you should not play around with it.
Playing around is how you learn, and in this case you can't do much damage
from a bad configuration (like you could with an open sendmail relay).
Another thing to note is that zone files are full of abbreviations designed
to make them easy to type. But those abbreviations can be confusing. For
example, "@", ORIGIN, and omission of various record parts are useful
shorthand for experts. When illustrating the syntax to newcomers, use full
records and then show how the shorthand makes things easier to type.
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