On Aug 28, 10:59 am, Pat Welch <pat...@inreach.com> wrote:
> ThreeStar wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 3:25 am, Pat Welch <pat...@inreach.com> wrote:
> >> Hi.
>
> >> With Unixware 7.1.x you can do scoadmin "DNS Manager" and setup your DNS
> >> server by answering questions.
>
> >> I expected to find it on 6.0.0 with MP2 and OSS706C after I installed it
> >> on an old Dell a client had available. No joy.
>
> >> The install itself went in without a hiccup, it even auto detected the
> >> 3com nic and the network came up like a champ after the install finished.
>
> >> Some background:
>
> >> Their Windows based DNS would not play nice with some software installed
> >> on an SCO 5.0.7 server that required a working local (behind the
> >> firewall) DNS.
>
> >> Their local Windows guy could not figure how to get their Windows DNS
> >> server to respond to (for example) nslookup, which also failed when run
> >> from an XP desktop. It seemed to me to be insisting on using only WINS
> >> and/or Netbios to resolve names.
>
> >> So I suggested trying OS6 on his old Dell and pointing the 5.0.7 server
> >> there for it's internal DNS lookups.
>
> >> I've never needed to setup a DNS sever on 6.0 before, but I had assumed
> >> that DNS Manager would be there since the kernel was based on Unixware.
>
> >> I really don't want to wade through the 6.0 docs that just explain a
> >> bazillion options without offering some examples of a common setup.
>
> >> Would the 7.1.4 DNS Manager work under 6.0? Or can someone point me to a
> >> web site with simple working DNS samples under 6.0? SCO's Knowledge
> >> base and online Docs had little or nothing to offer.
>
> >> TIA.
>
> >> --
> >> ----------------------------------------------------
> >> Pat Welch, UBB Computer Services, a WCS Affiliate
> >> SCO Authorized Partner
> >> Unix/Linux/Windows/Hardware Sales/Support
> >> (209) 745-1401 Cell: (209) 251-9120
> >> E-mail: pat...@inreach.com
> >> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> > See TA 107297 for instructions on setting up named. There's no
> > Scoadmin manager for it that I'm aware of, although you can set up the
> > BIND DNS module of Webmin.
>
> > A broken Windows DNS, if that's what your client has, is going to be
> > trouble. IMHO better to fix that than to add a duplicate name service
> > on the network.
>
> > --RLR
>
> Been there done that got the coffee mug 
>
> You forgot TA#110029, which basically explains the other TA is wrong
> about named.boot being the config file name, and of course the syntax
> for the shiny new 8.x BIND config file, named.conf, differs completely
> from named.boot. And it way predates OS6 and Unixware 7.1.3/4 anyway.
>
> And it goes out of its way to NOT promise a corrected TA. Lovely.
>
> There's a conversion script to convert named.boot to named.conf format,
> but it resulted in a non-functioning DNS under the old 5.0.6 box I tried
> it on, using a named.boot I built using a working DNS at another client
> with a 5.0.4 system (after changing the IP's of course).
>
> The Windows DNS is not going to be fixed, so thats not an option.
>
> When I get it setup I plan to point the Unix systems to the Unix/Linux
> DNS and the *ix DNS will have the correct external DNS servers without
> having to consult their Windows DNS (which it can't anyway as I pointed
> out).
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Pat Welch, UBB Computer Services, a WCS Affiliate
> SCO Authorized Partner
> Unix/Linux/Windows/Hardware Sales/Support
> (209) 745-1401 Cell: (209) 251-9120
> E-mail: pat...@inreach.com
> ----------------------------------------------------
I don't read TA110029 the way you do. To me it just gives the BIND 8
equivalents of the older named files. The Webmin module I cited works
with BIND 8 if you want a GUI.
There's a wealth of material on the Web about setting up BIND. See,
e.g., BIND home at
http://www.isc.org/index.pl or
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html.
--RLR