DNS Setup ?

[mblanco2000]

I am running Mandrake 10 CE and loving it even though I am new to the Linux Environment.

 

Now I am trying to setup a DNS Server to host my new domain name. Is there some sort of tutorial out there that could help me with this? I have read the How-Tos on TLDP site but they are not helping.

 

Is there something specific to Mandrake?

 

MB

[roland]

Hi,

 

first do you installed the MCC's server wizard ? run RpmDrake and type "wizard" as a keyword. Install, close and relauch MCC and see, there must be a DNS server wizard there.

In case you already installed the server wizards but the DNS server wizard don't fit your need and want it to set it manually, it would probably help to know that the DNS server daemon is called bind. Can't help more but bind is the keyword.

 

Good luck

[mblanco2000]

Yes I would like to set it up manually just to get more experience in linux and I do know that it called bind. I have tried to install bind from source on the ISC site but I just do not know if it is acutally installing or not. How do I be sure. I have done it a few times now.

 

Should I uninstall it? If so how would I go about uninstalling a source package?

 

So what I have done thus far is just get the mdk packages:

 

bind-9.2.3-6mdk.i586

bind-utils-9.2.3-6mdk.i586

 

And installed those. Is there a document on how to set these up manually?

Edited April 27, 2004 by mblanco2000

[fissy]

if software has been installed with ./configure && make && make install, you can usually do make uninstall in the same directory as it was installed from.

 

Setting up BIND is a pig, if you still want to, this is the book you need i think: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846

 

keep looking on the net though, that book is expensive.

 

Quick question, do you have a static ip address?