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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question ! db.cache ??? Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 16:54:50 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <33210D3A.34F@OntheNet.com.au> References: <01bbef4b$19e75fc0$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Tony <tony@gcr1.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36726 Tony wrote: > > I get a message from named when I crank it up that says: > can't find db.cache > can't find db.127.0.0.1 > > where should these files be ? > how do I create them ? The answers to the above questions are non-trivial... You really need to rush off to your favorite bookstore and buy a "Managing a Unix System" type book, which will have a section on DNS/BIND. This will answer all your questions and will give examples of the forward and reverse DNS files that named uses for resolving name->IP and IP->name queries! Tony