Re: Configure DNS

From: Ignacio Vidal (ividal@BIYCSA.COM.AR)
Date: Wed Apr 21 2004 - 08:08:22 EDT


Praveen:
Take a look at: http://www.nominum.com/getOpenSourceResource.php?id=6

Regards
Ignacio

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Kumar, Praveen (cahoot) [mailto:Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM]
> Enviado el: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:14 AM
> Para: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Asunto: Configure DNS
>
>
> Hi *,
> I have an AIX server which i want configure as a DNS
> server, and
> this would be used by only 2-3 pc's. I have done the
> following to configure
> the same,
>
> * Created a file named.boot under /etc, whose contents are
>
>
> directory /etc
> primary testitc.com named.data
> primary in-addr.arpa named.rev
>
>
> * Created a file named.data using the awk script given in
> /usr/samples/tcpip
> * Then changed the hostname to a fully qualified domain name
> * Created the file resolv.conf under /etc with the
> following entries
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> domain testitc.com
>
>
> but when i give nslookup it says "cannot find
> server.......:Server failed"
>
> Can some let me know where am i going wrong.
>
> It would be great if someone can give steps to configure a
> DNS server. This
> is not for a Production environment,so only resolution of the
> hostname is
> sufficient.
>
>
> TIA
> Praveen.K
>
>
>
>
>
>
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