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Hi all:

I am trying to setup a caching only name server from my COL 2.3 box
(with kernel 2.2.13)?  I have followed the DNS HOW-TO to a point that I
should start named from the command prompt.  According to the How-to,  I
oonly have to type:

/usr/sbin/ndc start

at the command prompt.  However, when I did that, I got

bash: /usr/sbin/ndc: No such file or directory

.  I tried to search the file ndc, and found that it actually does not
exist in the system!

Is this the way to start named?  Or is there any other ways?  If so,
what is it?

Thanks a bunch in advance.

Patrick.

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Quote:> Hi all:

> I am trying to setup a caching only name server from my COL 2.3 box
> (with kernel 2.2.13)?  I have followed the DNS HOW-TO to a point that I
> should start named from the command prompt.  According to the How-to,  I
> oonly have to type:

> /usr/sbin/ndc start

On a Caldera system, try:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start

Then check the end of /var/log/messages for error messages; your first
time doing it, you'll probably find some.

If there's no /etc/rc.d/init.d/named file, you need to install the bind
package from your Caldera CD (on my system, it's bind-8.2.2p4-1.

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Check to see if you have the daemon exec /usr/sbin/named or maybe some
other places. Just search around. If not you prob. need to install bind
package. I think the v4x of bind package did not have ndc.

Note if you do have Bind 4xx it also uses different config file
/etc/named.boot not /etc/named.conf. At least this was true when I
switched to Bind 8xx a few years back.

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Thanks so very much for all the answers here.  You guys are just so
incredible helpful.  I have solved all the DNS problems in one day.  There
is no way to make it without this ng!!

Thanks so very much.

Patrick.