From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17324 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2013 00:02:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17314 invoked by uid 89); 8 Nov 2013 00:02:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RDNS_NONE,SPAM_SUBJECT,SPF_SOFTFAIL,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail1.asahi-net.or.jp Received: from Unknown (HELO mail1.asahi-net.or.jp) (202.224.39.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:02:50 +0000 Received: from binki (x065076.dynamic.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [122.249.65.76]) by mail1.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1CA543C1 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 09:02:42 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20131108090821.1160@binki> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:02:00 -0000 From: wynfield@gmail.com To: Subject: Re: Bind server In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:28:34 +0000 (UTC) References: <20131107185616.1052@binki> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 Mark, thank you for the knowledgable information you provided. I am just in the learning phase and now realize how much more I need to dig into the subject to learn more. Cheers Mark Geisert wrote: > wynfield writes: > > Looking in /etc there is no named.conf file. Is this an oversight in > packaging? > > > > Any advice on getting named up and running (I don't have the expertise yet > to quickly write up a named.conf > > file?) > > named.conf is going to be different for every installation. It's where you > define the domains that bind will serve. There are lots of details that can > be gotten wrong. If you get certain specific ones wrong your bind server > can be victimized into participating in DNS attacks. > > Why do you need to run a DNS server? Is this for a local network only or do > you intend to expose it to the Internet? > > The knowledge needed to correctly set up named.conf is kind of specialized. > If we have some ISP admins on the list, maybe you'll get more specific help > but your best bet for something like this is an O'Reilly book or maybe the > ISC website (ISC being the folks who supply/support bind). > > ..mark > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple