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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS setup?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:51:11 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kurt@pinboard.com writes:

> I hope this question does not look dumb. I'm very new to UNIX and need
> to set up the machine as a DNS server.

Get a good book about DNS, for example ``BIND and DNS''.  Configuring
a nameserver is nothing you could learn in a Usenet crash course.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)