On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:00, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote: > I've tried unsuccessfully to set up a DNS server using the GUI (or any other > method). I add a domain, a host record, save and restart named and when I > try to resolve the name it says it can't find it. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? In addition to creating the zone files you will need to point your machine to that DNS server. You do that in the /etc/named.conf file via the nameserver statements. You may also need to look at the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to make sure dns is listed there for host lookups. Normally this should list host dns in that order so you can override DNS via the /etc/hosts file. The bible for setting up DNS servers is the O'Reilly book DNS and Bind (isbn 1-56592-010-4). Highly recommend you get a current copy of this book. Mine is from 1993 and is heavily dog eared. :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Don't smoke the next cigarette. Repeat.
