Still Prototyping

Still working on the prototype FreeBSD server. Last night I focused on the DNS side of things. In FreeBSD 7.2 Bind version 9 is running which I believe is the latest version available.

Having spent so much time with Microsoft’s implementation of a DNS server, I forgot how much you had to understand DNS in order to configure Bind. Since everything is text file based, I had to really make sure things were formatted correctly. It didn’t prove to be all the difficult and when I was done I managed to create a master DNS server that is hosting my .local domain. An “nslookup” worked successfully and I also ran a dig for my domain without any issues. Tonight I’ll create a reverse lookup DNS file. With luck I’ll be able to copy my forward lookup file and make some minor changes to it.

As usual I have a website that could prove to be useful. Even though the target audience is Ubuntu users, the configuration options are pretty much the same. The only thing you need to be aware of is file locations since FreeBSD and Ubuntu are using different file names apparently and slightly different file locations. I’ll have a better idea of this when I start my Ubuntu stuff.

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/dns-configuration.html

This does bring up something that I’ll need to get worked on. Getting a real domain name to use. Since I plan on hosting my blog and some other things, I’ll need to find a decent registrar to get that taken care of.