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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!odinn!bolsen From: bolsen@seanet.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS set-up in FreeBSD Date: 29 Oct 1995 08:41:04 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 21 Sender: bolsen@odinn (Bruce Olsen) Message-ID: <46ven0$570@kaleka.seanet.com> References: <46n1q0$1h7@dns.enter.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: odinn.seanet.com In article <46n1q0$1h7@dns.enter.net>, dh@enter.net (Daniel Hauer) writes: |> Any one out there set up local DNS in freebsd 2.10.5? how is it done? |> I have a local network with 2 machines, one is windoze 95 and the |> other freebsd/win95/win3.1. when I have freebsd booted, I would like |> DNS, so I can telnet by name to the other machine running freebsd. |> I can telnet by IP address, but not by name, anyone have a sample |> named.boot file for me or is it something else I am missing? I can |> ping the windoze machine by name from the freebsd, but can't ping the |> freebsd from the windoze machine, which leads me to believe there is |> no real dns happening....... |> Thank you for any replies.... |> dan hauer |> dh@enter.net |> |> Works great. you'll need to create /etc/named.boot and the files to hold your DNS database. DNS isn't rocket science, but you'll need a bit of knowledge that can be gleaned for the ORA book on DNS and BIND. The easiest way to get it working, though, is to get the perl script from that book called "h2n" and convert your /etc/hosts. Do an archie search on "dnsarch" to find it.