From 7c09f7ba442e90f36ea1a9ed39d43edb54d88b3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny Mayer Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 02:33:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated win32 Installation Notes --- win32utils/readme1st.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/win32utils/readme1st.txt b/win32utils/readme1st.txt index 4d93cf3f50..9c3cf53cb2 100644 --- a/win32utils/readme1st.txt +++ b/win32utils/readme1st.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Beta Release of BIND 9.2.0 for Window NT/2000 -Date: 30-Jun-2001. +Date: 20-Jul-2001. This is a Beta Release of BIND 9.2.0 for Windows NT/2000. As such it should not be installed on a production system or anywhere that is @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ same directory as named: dns/bin/. Use the command this way: rndc-confgen > rndc.conf -An rndc.conf will be generated in the current but not copied to +An rndc.conf will be generated in the current directory but not copied to the dns/etc directory where it needs to reside. In addition the named.conf file will need to be modified in order @@ -50,19 +50,25 @@ Note that the value of the secret must come from the key generated above for rndc and must be the same key value for both. If you have rndc on a Unix box you can use it to control BIND on the NT/W2K box as well as using the Windows version of rndc to control a BIND 9 -daemon. +daemon on a Unix box. + +In addition BIND is installed as a win32 system service, can be +started and stopped in the same way as any other service and +automatically starts at whenever the system is booted. DNS Tools I have built versions of the following tools for Windows NT: dig, -nslookup, host, nsupdate, dnssec-keygen, dnssec-makekeyset, dnssec-signkey, -dnssec-signzone. The tools will NOT run on Win9x, only WinNT and Win2000. -The latter tools are for use with DNSSEC. - +nslookup, host, nsupdate, named-checkconf, named-checkzone, dnssec-keygen, +dnssec-makekeyset, dnssec-signkey, dnssec-signzone. The tools will NOT run +on Win9x, only WinNT and Win2000. The latter tools are for use with DNSSEC. +All tools are installed in the dns/bin directory. Problems -Please report all problems to bind9-bugs@isc.org and not to me. +Please report all problems to bind9-bugs@isc.org and not to me. All +other questions should go to the bind-users@isc.org mailing list and +news group. Danny Mayer danny.mayer@nominum.com