RE: Setting up DNS

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

the files go in the path specified by the "directory" directive in
/etc/named.conf.  The standard place that people put these is /var/named,
but I have also seen /etc/named used..

as far as why you want the reverse lookup, many places will deny connections
if they cannot reverse lookup the IP of the originator, and some protocols
such as telnet and ftp will hang for long periods of time attempting a
non-existant reverse lookup (in some cases).

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:jean_christian@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:08 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Setting up DNS


I'm slowly making my way through the DNS/BIND book but have it a first small

bump.

In following the examples the author creates a db.domain file (db.movie.edu)

and two db.ADDR files (db.192.249.249 and db.192.253.253). However he does 
not explain where these file should reside (I assume they should be on the 
machine running as DNS server) or why the two db.ADDR files are needed ... 
(I'm assuming again they are for reverse name lookups but why would I need 
that?)

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Jc
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