Newbie Bind DNS help needed!

Hi,

I need to add an entry for a local machine 192.168.0.180, called
scalix.localdomain into BIND via webmin.

My hosts file has

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.180 scalix.localdomain scalix

where do I start?

Could someone post a suitable zones file that I could use to create the
entry needed?

Many thanks

Matthew

On 10/10/05 18:54, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to add an entry for a local machine 192.168.0.180, called
> scalix.localdomain into BIND via webmin.
>
> My hosts file has
>
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.0.180 scalix.localdomain scalix
>
> where do I start?
>
> Could someone post a suitable zones file that I could use to create the
> entry needed?

I don't know webmin but unless you have a daemon already setup setting
the database for a bind daemon isn't just editing a file. It requires a
more complex work.
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Yep Bind is already running fine, just need to add this zone!

Thanks

Matthew

Matt wrote:
> Yep Bind is already running fine, just need to add this zone!

Webmin --> Servers --> DNS and Bind --> Create new zone

Or is there something more to the question that I don't understand?

-j

Hi Jeff,

The bit I was after is what do I enter in the box when I have selected
the create new zone.

Not sure of the data I need to input!

Many thanks

Matthew

On 12 Oct 2005 03:37:05 -0700, Matt wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The bit I was after is what do I enter in the box when I have selected
> the create new zone.
>
> Not sure of the data I need to input!

Maybe a refresher is needed.

http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secur...-template.html

Matt wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The bit I was after is what do I enter in the box when I have selected
> the create new zone.
>
> Not sure of the data I need to input!

For your example in your original approach you will want to set up a
domain called

localdomain.

Once the domain is created you will then need to add an A record which
will have hostname

scalix

with IP address

192.168.0.180

However, you might find it useful to use something other than
localdomain. If you have some domain name, then you can set up a
subdomain of that. For example, I have goldmark.org and can set up a
local subdomain called, say, private.goldmark.org. So if I wanted
scalix.private.goldmark.org to point to 192.168.0.180 I would do as
above, but create the domain private.goldmark.org. instead of localdomain.

PS: I'm not sure how webmin handles the trailing dot on domainnames.
So you may have to try giving those absolute domainnames with or without
the "." at the end.

-j