Total beginners help - Win Q.

Techie wrote

Ok, this is about a setup on a windows box for the prupose of learning
from scratch. I better say that flat out from the beginning not to
offend anyone since I have noticed it's happend far to easily before.

Hence, I am here to learn. Not to step on peoples toes, and if that is
to much, then I'm sorry but I not only want to learn, but I also have
to learn.

We all learn by different methods and I learn by taking an example and
breaking it own. Not by building an example from scratch without
knowing what I'm doing.

Thus I am asking anyone willing to put about 15 minutes of effort in,
to show me how to do this, so I can get something that may actually
work, to bounce around with on my own.

I have been told off before, because I am using a Win box to set this
up and play around with. I have been told by some in my city that they
want £1,000 to set up a box for me doing just what I outline below.
(Some horrendus people, but I guess it's their idea of making a
living.)

What I simply need, to get in to this, may seem ridiculous to some, but
hey, it's my way of learning, and if we where all the same, it would be
a boring world to live in.

Enough of the appologetics and to the study case of mine...

This whole thing assumes I have run the installer on my XP can used for
studies of any kind. It's not a distribution example but just for
practical training anyway.

What I plan to achive: A Master (primary) DNS server setup

All names, zones and IP's are of course fictitious and for training
purposes only.

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There are two domains.

MYMAINDOMAIN.COM
SECONDDOMAIN.COM

MYDOMAIN.COM has the following structure

NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.1
NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.2
MAIL.MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.1
MAIL2.MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.2
MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.1
FTP.MYDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.1

Of course, www.mydomain.com should also go to 99.99.99.1 The primary
and secondary NS servers are self evident in this case.
I would also need a sample of the reverse lookup file for
1.99.99.99.in- addr-arpa and 2.99.99.99.in-addr-arpa as well.

There is also the SPF record to consider.

"v=spf1 a mx ip4:99.99.99.1 ip4:99.99.99.2"


Now, the second domain have the following structure.

SECONDDOMAIN.COM is also located on 99.99.99.1

Subsequently www.SECONDDOMAIN.COM is there too.

FTP. SECONDDOMAIN.COM is also on 99.99.99.1

MAIL. SECONDDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.1
MAIL2. SECONDDOMAIN.COM on 99.99.99.2

The primary and secondary NS for this SECONDDOMAIN.COM is

NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM.

Also here is the SPF record to consider.

"v=spf1 a mx ip4:99.99.99.1 ip4:99.99.99.2"


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Enough about the outline.

Could some kind soul please show me the contents and formatting of the
required files, and the named.conf file needed to start BIND 9.3.1
successfully, then I'll be out of everyones hair playing around by
myself until I know what I'm doing.

Since SPF is the most "exceptional" part of your requirements, I spent a few minutes with Google looking for an example of a whole zone file that included SPF records, and turned up the following:
http://spf.idimo.com/how_to-s/how_to_set_up_SPF.html

As for named.conf, a simplistic config would be:

options {
directory "/var/named";
recursion no;
};

zone "example.com" {
type master;
file "example.com";
};

When I say "simplistic", I *really* mean simplistic. This doesn't configure anything to do with logging, controls (i.e. the ability to control the operation of the nameserver process via the "rndc" command; because nothing has been defined for "controls", named will try on every restart to set up the rndc control channel using default parameters, and complain in the logs when that fails), and the only security measure here is "recursion no", which disables named's capability to go out and resolve names from other nameservers (therefore this config would be useless for allowing your nameserver to resolve Internet DNS for local clients). You'd really need to customize this in order to make it "ready for the world", but to do a decent job of that, you'd need to understand some of the underlying theory of DNS and some configuration basics of the BIND implementation. The usual recommendation around here for learning about both the theory and practice of DNS and BIND is the _DNS_and_BIND_ book from O'Reilly. It's considered the "bible" on the subject...

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