From: david AT coent DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dr David Coe) Subject: Re: How to set up a DNS ? 5 Nov 1997 18:50:46 -0800 Message-ID: <01bcea25$20a27ae0$0100007f.cygnus.gnu-win32@coent.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pasa Guglielmo , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Pasa, Probably this is the wrong group for such a question. Its answer also depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. If you want to: 1. just share native filestore and applications across PC's, then you don't need DNS at all and can make do with NetBEUI. 2. access local FTP, News, Mail and Web servers on a small mixed PC and Unix Intranet, then installing simple TCP/IP and making entries in each machine's etc/hosts file should suffice (see the NT System Guide and/or Resource Kit manuals). 3. run a modest LAN with shared dial-up connection to the Internet, then you might consider something like Qbik's Wingate proxy server which has a mini DNS built-in and rely on your ISP to handle the main DNS infrastructure (have a look at http://www.deerfield.com/wingate/ and, in particular, the very helpful manual in their freely-downloadable Lite version). 4. manage a really big and busy site with a need to handle and cache a lot of high-speed domain-lookup traffic, then a full-blown DNS like Bind for WinNT might be justified (try http://www.software.com/prod/bindnt and O'Reilly's excellent book "DNS & Bind"). I can't remember titles off-hand, but both my local bookshop and university library have metres of books on system administration for this sort of topic. If you want a feel for available third-party internet resources, consult the server pages on http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/tools/ - it will keep you busily occupied for months. Happy browsing! David Coe - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".