[KLUG Members] Devel Linux as DNS Server

[Bruce Smith]

>    Do you have any pointers to Documentation for setting up DL as a 
> stand-alone DNS Server?

I use DL as my company's DNS servers.  I cheated and simply copied over
my the named config files from the distro I was previously using.  :-)

I recently committed a lot of changes to CVS, once of which will allow
BIND to run as a standalone DNS server "out of the box".  Which makes it
easy to add your own zones too, if you need to.

If you can run a i686 compiled "server" version of DL, I uploaded a
1.2.7-pre-release version to the FTP site (/pub/devel/testing/) which
has all the recent changes.

>    Also on DL 1.2.6 during initial setup, when trying to list 
> "Services->Select what services to start on boot" it goes to a black 
> screen "Loading Services, please wait...", and then jumps right back to 
> the "Setup" screen. Any ideas what that is about? Bad disc?

Probably something screwed up in your /etc/sysconfig/config  
Edit it manually and look for something like "CONFIG_=xxx"
where it should be "CONFIG_NAME=xxx"  ("NAME" is missing)

Seems like there was a recent bug fix on this one too.
If you find out which service is missing the name, let me know
which one and I'll double check to make sure it's fixed.

 - BS