From: gpasa AT omedia DOT ch (Pasa Guglielmo) Subject: Re: How to set up a DNS ? 5 Nov 1997 20:51:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3460F25F.1329583.cygnus.gnu-win32@omedia.ch> References: <01bcea25$20a27ae0$0100007f AT coent DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Dr David Coe Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com It seems that a full DNS server is needed to run safely Starnet's X-Win32 (isn't it ?) or one has to disable its DNS entry of its ISP and reactivate it whenever it connect to its ISP ? That's why I'm interested in a DNS server (I've been told that there is a bind-dns freeware available at http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-19403,501000.html . Dr David Coe wrote: > > 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 -- Sincerely yours, Pasa Guglielmo ------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ homepage: http://www.omedia.ch/pages/gpasa/ ¦ ¦----------------------------------------------------------------¦ ¦ e-mail : gpasa AT omedia DOT ch ¦ tel. : +41 (0)24 485 50 40 ¦ ¦ mailing : Pasa Guglielmo ¦ fax : +41 (0)24 485 50 44 ¦ ¦ Rte des Cases 17A ¦ ¦ ¦ CH-1890 St-Maurice ¦ prof.: physicist ¦ ¦ (Switzerland) ¦ ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------ - 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".