At 12:17 PM 2/8/2006, Will McDonald wrote: >On 08/02/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > I need a DNS server in a test environment, so I am adding Bind to my > > notebook build. > > > > I first did: yum install bind > > rebooted > > yum update > > rebooted > > > > Now I see named as a service I can start. > > > > But when I go to /var/named to edit the files (btw, all I want to do > > at this point is to fake out a FQDN expected by a piece of gear), > none exist. > > > > And I doubt that if I start named it would be properly chrooted (as > > it was on a server where I selected named as a service to install). > > > > So pointers? > > > > where do I go from here? > ># yum grouplist | grep -i dns ># yum groupinfo "DNS Name Server" >Setting up Group Process >Setting up repositories >archive-rhel4-dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 >base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 >update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 >extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > >Group: DNS Name Server > Required Groups: > Base > Mandatory Packages: > bind > Default Packages: > caching-nameserver > bind-chroot > ># yum groupinstall "DNS Name Server" > >Perhaps? looks like a winner. Everything looks like it is there now..... thanks!