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bind correction
Authored by: tenebrae on Sep 21, '02 12:34:42AM

Just a quick correction to rgould's bind setup info.

The only information needed in named.local would be the name of the local machine. That file is only used for the reverse DNS (ie. PTR or in-addr.arpa) record for the 127.0.0 netblock, the only entry needed is the default:

1 IN PTR localhost.

Any 192.168 IP addresses that you enter there might actually cause errors with BIND, else BIND will interpret them as 127.0.0.192.168.1.1, which won't resolve to anything on your local network.

Other than that lil issue, the info was spot-on regarding BIND. I can't speak to the sendmail info, as my OS X box is a workstation, and I leave the mail to my (FreeBSD) server. Hope this helps.



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