On Sun June 25 2006 13:46, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
- Buy a good DNS book, or download one of the FAQ's, join mailing list
for bind or other technology, and use programs like tcpdump and ngrep for testing. I like ./ngrep '' port 53 or similar because I can see the server start to contact root servers as it propagates.
You can also use named-checkzone and named-checkconf to check your config and zone files for errors.
Best advice is learn DNS before you try this on your own. There is a lot involved and it's easy to make a mistake.