DNS?!

[VBMan]

Dear Friends,
I was wondering if any of you could answer two questions I had. I know how Open Source people hate newbies but... here goes. I want to know how to extrace a .tar.gz file. And were can I find a decent DNS walkthrough that would allow me to have Windows Clients and host a website any good books would be apprecated.

Thanks,
~Ben

 

[timjarland]

To extract a tar.gz file try gunzip -d. You should also be able to look at the man page for gunzip. So you want to use OpenBSD as a server and connect Windows clients? What type of server related tasks do you want the BSD box to perform?

 

[abovebrd]

Extracting a tar.gz file

gunzip -d | tar -xvf file.tar.gz

This will do two things

1. decompress the zipped file.
2. Extract the tar archive.

For information on bind I would go right to the Source.

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

-Danny

 

[buraglio]

OpenBSD comes with apache by default, web files are located in /var/

http://www/htdocs

It also has Bind 4, I'd reconend upgrading to 8.

http://www.openbsd.org

has good docs for setting these things up. also to gunzip/untar that file you can also use
tar -zxvf filename
I have some docs on

http://www.securitydrop.com

they may help, I didn't write any of them, just archived them.