Very Computer

I've got my new slackware system up and running but the
DNS server I'd like to setup is driving me nuts...

I'm starting named ok.

I created a file named.boot
as specified in the docs and multiple
books I have.

the syslog has a message 'named.conf' not found when
named starts.

ok, I change the name of the file to named.conf.

Now it says there's a syntax error in the 'directory' clause

I put all the files in /etc/ and remove that line

it now says theres a syntax error near 'cache'

Does DNS require tabs instead of spaces in it's files?
Do I need to recompile this thing because it's messed up?
Does anyone have a copy of 'hostcvt'? It seems to have
disappeared from all the systems I've looked on.

Thanks for any help you could provide

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Programmers get overlaid.

See http://www.isc.org/bind.html (at least I think that's the URL,
doesn't seem to be up at this second).

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Quote:>ok, I change the name of the file to named.conf.

>Now it says there's a syntax error in the 'directory' clause

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>Does DNS require tabs instead of spaces in it's files?
>Do I need to recompile this thing because it's messed up?
>Does anyone have a copy of 'hostcvt'? It seems to have
>disappeared from all the systems I've looked on.

1.  Go to www.isc.org and learn as much as you can about BIND 8.1.1, or
2.  Download the rpm for BIND 4.9.6 and install that.  The DNS&BIND book
by O'Reilly and Associates covers 4.x.x, as does the majority of WWW
resources for DNS.

Quote:>Thanks for any help you could provide

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>Programmers get overlaid.