Yet another excellent source for help with Linux DNS configuration
is Olaf Kirch's Linux Network Administrator's Guide, which is
available via ftp at sunsite.unc.edu in the
/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/network-guide directory.
I would be happy to send you my DNS config files: named.boot,
named.local, named.rev, named.hosts. But I'm also having trouble
getting them to work so I'm not sure you want them.
As far as I know I have set up my named files corectly and
uncommented the commands in rc.inet2 that invoke the named deamon
during startup. Doing a ps -x | grep named confirms that named is
indeed running.
Does anyone know where the domain name is actually set? The
"domainname" command sets the NIS domain name not the DNS domain
name. My resolv.conf file has "domain gsdl.com" on the first line.
>From what I have read this means to add "gsdl.com" to host names
for lookups and does not per se set the domain name. I issue the
getDNSdomainname command after booting it says there is no domain.
I suspect this domain naming problem is related to why named is not
responding to nslookup. Any wisdom would be appreciated.
Nick Kelischek