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                This is the command that I type in:

                                                                                        named -p 53 -b /usr/local/domain/named.boot

                My boot file is in /usr/local/domain/named.boot and it has this line
in it:

                                        directory /usr/local/domain
                                        primary         local.domain    database-file

and my database-file is in the /usr/local/domain directory and it has in
it the following :

                                alias-name                      actual-ip-address

Obviously the database file is incorrect.  Can anyone direct me to some
documentation that might have some good examples of how the database
file should look like.  We have a small network of Servers and I mainly
need it for giving out ip address to new PCs.  Thanks in advance.

Cuong Tran

Quote:>               Can anyone out there show me where I can find some example files for a
>Domain Name Service?  I have a couple of HP 9K boxes that I want to make
>as primary and secondary name server.  I've read about the named.boot
>file and would like some other examples of the database file or at least
>the syntax of what the database file should look like.  This is what I
>have so far :

>    This is the command that I type in:
>       named -p 53 -b /usr/local/domain/named.boot

>    My boot file is in /usr/local/domain/named.boot and it has this line
>in it:

>       directory /usr/local/domain
>       primary         local.domain    database-file

>and my database-file is in the /usr/local/domain directory and it has in
>it the following :

>       alias-name                      actual-ip-address

>Obviously the database file is incorrect.  Can anyone direct me to some
>documentation that might have some good examples of how the database
>file should look like.  We have a small network of Servers and I mainly
>need it for giving out ip address to new PCs.  Thanks in advance.

If you have the HP manuals, look in 'Administering ARPA Services', in the
chapter 'Configuring and Maintaining the BIND Name Server'.

Also, with HP-UX 9 there is an HP-supplied utility, hosts_to_named, which
can construct a domain database from an /etc/hosts type file. There is
a man page for this program.

A suggestion: create a symbolic link /etc/named.boot pointing to your
boot file in /usr/local/domain, rather than specifying a boot file on
the command line to named. That way, named automatically gets started
at boot time, from one of the rc scripts.

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