Linux DNS virgin

[cjs500]

Hi all, I've just started to toy around with the DNS setup using fedora core 1. I have a book that I am refering to to setup the named.conf file and in that file it is pointing to the location to store the zone files. ex: /var/named

I'm sure this is a stupid question, when I setup a zone master or a zone slave to another dns server in the named.conf is the system supposed to create the zone file or am I supposed to manually create this zone file in /var/named?

Thanks!!

[garyfr]

You can either create the forward and reverse zone files manually (that's how an instructor in a Linux class likely will show you), or you can try doing so in the GUI tools with GNOME. Personally, I prefer the former, only because I can immediately run a testconfig command to see if there were any typos or other syntax errors.

Good luck.....most likely one of the more daunting aspects of Linux management, it seems.

Cheers,
- Garyfr -

[cjs500]

Thanks for the reply, I figured as much.