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From: eefeisal@mumbles.swan.ac.uk (Feisal Mohammed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting up a DNS
Date: 22 Sep 1996 10:13:05 GMT
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In article <51th7t$kg3@purple.iap.net.au>, dans@iap.net.au wrote:
>
>We seem to be stuck. We have a lan running a FreeBSD server (2.0.5). It was 
>set up so that we could carryout our HTML authoring off line.
>
>The problem is that we can't seem to get the DNS working.....or at least we 
>think thats the problem. We want to be able to run a httpd daemon (cern) that 
[snip]
If you want to get DNS running, a long explaination is difficult to do
on a newsgroup.  A very good book to get is "DNS and BIND" by O'Reilly and
Associates, it gives you a step by step procedure how to setup and run DNS.

>If you could mail you replies directly to us as we dont have the time to 
>follow this news group on a regular basis.
Sorry, if you post here you had better have the time to read here.

-Feisal 
Feisal Mohammed <f.o.mohammed@swansea.ac.uk>