[WBEL-users] Some BIND questions

[Robert Moskowitz]

NOTE : I am not skilled with LINUX.  I am trying to switch out an NT Domain 
for a SAMBA Domain, and one of my colleagues set me up with Whitebox for 
stablity over Fedora or Debian...

The system is running isolated on its own VLAN with no outside contact 
(thus no updates!), with the same address and host name as the NT server it 
will replace (to keep all configs cleaner).  I can switch test systems to 
the VLAN as progress is made....

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I use to know BIND 4.x quite well, but I am dated.....

What version of BIND is running on Whitebox, and how do I check the version.

I have editted my named.conf and the zone files in /var/named as per Liu's 
BIND book 4th Ed (had to get it and pitch my 2nd Ed).

**The DNS configuration graphic tool is broken.**

How do I reload the files?  Neither ndc or rndc are found. (rndc reload).

Localhost and 127.0.0.1 are working.
forward on my domain works
reverse does not.  I am attempting to use RFC 2317 method for CIDR 
delegation (Solution 3 in BIIND, pgs 239 - 240).

So is there a way to:

query to see which zones are running?

For testing reverse, isolated, do I have to master the whole arpa. tree 
down to my class zone?  ( I am master for the x.x.x.in-addr.arpa and the 
n-m.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa zones)

I am using the $GENERATE command.  Can't find it clearly defined in Liu's 
book (he needs a better Index!)  How can I set my debug level to see if 
this command is working correctly, and which syslog the debug stuff will be 
written to?

Can I set debug to see the processing of a DIG on the reverse lookup?

Well that is a starter.


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