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10-15-2001

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Named

It looks like named, but it's said as "name-dee", it's the daemon that runs the name server. The config file you want is in /etc, if memory serves, usually /etc/named.conf. There shoudl also be a man page on that one. The database for the zone is usually in the named.hostname file in /etc. This will contaitn all of the entries for your zone that you are setting up. There are a number of quirks to BIND and named, not the least of which is incrementing the serial number each time you edit the database file to get named to re-read the SOA.
In all honesty, setting up DNS is a real task, and I'd highly recommend the O'Rielly book "DNS and BIND", available at B&N, or anywhere that has ORA books (also ora.com). It's a good read, relatively short, and a relaly good reference to DNS and BIND.

Good luck, get the book, save yourself some seriously frustrating time, and have fun with it,

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POLYGRAPH-DNS-CFG(1)						   User Commands					      POLYGRAPH-DNS-CFG(1)

NAME

       polygraph-dns-cfg - DNS server configuration tool

SYNOPSIS

       dns-cfg [--option ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Given  a  zone  name, DNS names, and IP addresses, dns-cfg builds configuration suitable for use with BIND and, perhaps, other DNS servers.
       Dns-cfg output consists of three parts. The first part is the text to cut-and-paste into BIND's named.conf file. This part is sent  to  the
       standard  output. The outer two parts are direct and reverse zone files. Those may be quite large and are dumped on disk into the appropri-
       ately named files. Dns-cfg can use PGL configuration as the source of information.

OPTIONS

       --help list of options

       --version
	      package version info

       --config <filename>
	      PGL configuration

       --cfg_dirs <dirs>
	      directories for PGL #includes

       --zone <str>
	      zone name

       --addresses <str>
	      IP addresses

       --names <str>
	      domain names

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2006 The Measurement Factory, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       polygraph(7) - general information and a list of programs

       http://www.web-polygraph.org/ - project web site

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