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- Short: bind4 nameserver for AmiTCP v1.0 beta
- Uploader: sichler@rumms.uni-mannheim.de (Stefan Sichler)
- Author: sichler@rumms.uni-mannheim.de (Stefan Sichler)
- Type: comm/tcp
-
- This is a "quick and dirty", but direct port of a bind-4.9.2 nameserver
- taken from a BSD4.4 distribution.
-
- I have not done much testing yet, but it seems to run stable so far.
-
- I'd like to emphasis that this server is NOT perfect, but I needed a
- server with "full" functionality, compared with the two other servers
- named.lha and named403.lha, that I've seen on Aminet.
-
-
- Some of the features:
-
- * handles standard and inverse queries
-
- * supports query forwarding
-
- * allows zone transfers (via named-xfer)
-
- * allows query logging
-
-
- The following things differ from the Unix version: *** !!!!PLEASE READ CAREFUL!!!! ***
-
- * needs ixemul.library (don't know the version... I use 47.3)
-
- * Configfile location defaults to "AmiTCP:db/named.boot" (can be changed by -b option)
-
- * named and named-xfer location is "AmiTCP:serv/"
-
- * The logfile (in debug mode) is stored as "AmiTCP:log/named.log"
-
- * The server may NOT be run from inetd :-(
-
- * The only signal the server accepts is CTRL-C, which stops it.
- -> no database dumps or in/decreasing of debug level while running possible :-(
-
- * All files that the Unix version would store in "/var/tmp" will be stored in "T:"
-
- * No pid file is generated
- -> named.reload / named.restart scripts won't work, so I did not include them in
- this archive
-
- * I removed some startup messages of the server that would cause my
- AmiTCP-log winow to popup
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ============
-
- To install it, run the "install.bat" script. This will install the daemons and the man
- pages and add a small addition to the User-Startnet script.
- (You will probably want to add AmiTCP:man to your man path to view the man pages correctly)
-
- The configuration examples will NOT be installed, because they are only examples and won't
- work!
-
- So in order to get the server to work, you should first read the man pages that will be
- installed in AmiTCP:man and then you should CREATE YOUR CONFIG FILES and restart AmiTCP.
-
- Good luck...
-