On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:50, Peter Boy wrote:
Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 18:18 -0500 schrieb Jason Vas Dias:
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:55, Paul wrote:
Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI interface stuff allowed ;-) [...]
If you can get access to a graphics terminal, using the 'system-config-bind' utility provides a GUI, with a facility to import /etc/hosts files.
I suppose, system-config-bind is currently not a good starting point. The included help file is out of sync with the current program version. So, for a starter is hard to figure out what has to be done.
I couldn't manage to let the program write a configuration file at all. It always crashes with a python traceback when I instruct it to save the configuration (I've to figure out weather I entered something wrong into one of the entry fields or the program crashes by itself - so no bugzilla entry yet).
Yes, this is a known problem with system-config-bind < 4 .
Use the latest system-config-bind:
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/system-config-bind-4.0.0-3.noarch.rpm
and you should have no problems.
Also for any beginner to DNS needing to get into serious DNS configuration, the book 'DNS and BIND', Abitz & Liu, 2nd. Ed, by O'Reilly is a must.
The book should be a better starting point. Pick up one of the examples and modify it acdcording to the specific need. If desired I can send you a template for the requirred files.
Peter