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From: aaronh@user1.channel1.com (Aaron Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple xxx.org on a same freebsd server
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 14:49:39 GMT
Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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davidtay@interport.net (David Tay) wrote:

>Bruce Olsen (bolsen@seanet.com) wrote:

>: I suspect he means multiple domain names because he said "multiple
>: domain names" in his post. 

>this just what i never did get. how the hell does one refer to a machine 
>as "domain.com" or whatever? i'm sure it can be done somewhere in DNS  
>but I can't seem to see beyond host.domain.com.

>: to set up all the right files in DNS. Check out the ORA book on DNS
>: and Bind.

>the linux networking guide by olaf kirsh is pretty good as a basic, 
>beginner's guide.

>--David Tay
>(leave DNS to your provider)

	In your /etc/named directory, simply edit your domain.com.zone file,
add a line domain.com	IN	A	xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
	That's it. domain.com now has an IP address. Don't forget to increment
the serial number and named.restrt.