NAME

bindsetup − Sets up the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) service

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/bindsetup

DESCRIPTION

The bindsetup command sets up the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) service on your system and places hosts resolution under BIND control.  You can use this command to set up your system as a primary, secondary, slave, or caching server, or as a client. 

In order to run BIND, your system’s host name must include the BIND domain name.  The BIND host name consists of the local host name plus the BIND domain name, separated by periods.  For example, the BIND host name for a system whose local host name is orange, and whose BIND domain name is col.ecd.com, is orange.col.ecd.com. 

When you are using the bindsetup command to configure BIND on your system for the first time, it edits the /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.config files and changes the local host name to the BIND host name. 

If the bindsetup command changes your system’s host name, you should reboot the system to be sure that the change is propagated throughout the system. 

Before you run bindsetup, your system must be established on a local area network.  In addition, you must know the BIND domain name for your local area network, and whether your system will be a primary, secondary, slave, or caching server, or a client. 

If you are setting up your system as a client or a secondary or a slave server, you must know the name of the host that is serving as either the primary or secondary server. If you specify the fully qualified name of the server, you must include a trailing dot (.). For more information, see the guide to Network Configuration. 

You should run the bindsetup command as superuser and with the system in multiuser mode. 

When you run bindsetup, a menu is displayed giving you a choice of responses.  You are then prompted for further information.  Before bindsetup exits, it lists the files that have been updated. 

Once BIND is installed on a system, it cannot be used until the /etc/svc.conf file is modified to indicate that BIND is being used to serve hosts information. The bindsetup command allows you to edit the /etc/svc.conf file by giving you the option of calling the /usr/sbin/svcsetup script from within it.  If you do not edit the /etc/svc.conf file from within bindsetup, you must edit it by invoking the svcsetup script from the command line, or manually. 

FILES

/etc/hostsList of locally maintained host names and IP addresses. 

/etc/svc.confDatabase name with the selected naming services. 

Default BIND files:

/etc/namedbBIND server data file directory. 

/etc/namedb/named.boot
BIND server boot file.

/etc/namedb/named.ca
BIND server cache file.

/etc/namedb/named.local
BIND server local host reverse address host file.

/etc/namedb/hosts.db
BIND primary server hosts file.

/etc/namedb/hosts.rev
BIND primary server reverse address hosts file.

/etc/resolv.confBIND data file. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: named(8), nslookup(8), svcsetup(8)

Files: resolv.conf(4), svc.conf(4)

Network Services: bind_intro(7)

Network Configuration