How to configure DNS on UnixWare?

[nashcom]

Hi

I'm about to configure DNS for the first time on a couple of UnixWare 7.1.3 servers, but I'm getting confused by reading through the man pages. I see there is a 'scoadmin dns' utility, but I don't know what sort of server/zone I need to install (eg caching, primary, etc etc). The servers are both on the same subnet. One is a file & print server running Samba and DHCP server eg server1.x.com 192.168.0.1. The other will be running SCO Office Mail Server eg server2.x.com 192.168.0.2. I have an ADSL router and modem configured to our ISP (they host our domain eg x.com) and the router/modem are configured to use the ISP's DNS servers. The internet connection is working from a test PC (with the default gateway set to the address of the router 192.168.0.246 and using the ISP's name servers).

I'd appreciate some pointers on how to proceed!

David

 

[cdlvj]

How big of an operation? What is your reason?

I do think that you will have a problem in that your router will probably limit you to expose only one server to the internet, so you need to check that out.

For a smaller outfit, all you really need is a primary server. The secondary is there to backup the primary.

In your domain records, you list your server 1st, and use your isp as secondary.