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yo trin ur a newbie, i suggest never high jack another thread or were gonna have som problems

Oops, looks like vinny is still around. trininox: if you want to ask further questions, create a new thread. We'll leave this one for vinny.

P.S. You can setup a slave on the DollarDNS service for free with no real drawbacks.

umm yea im still stumped with BIND i dled it now wat do i install it to certain place?

Well let's being orientation shall we?

*** Getting familiar with BIND files

BIND_DIR = The directory you installed BIND in

Copy all the files at http://www.dollardns.net/bind/ to
BIND_DIR\etc\

You should have 2 sub directories called etc and bin. Here's a description of a couple of files.

BIND_DIR\bin\named.exe
-- This is your BIND executeable.

BIND_DIR\bin\rndc.exe
-- This is your BIND manager

BIND_DIR\etc\named.conf
-- Your BIND configuration file

BIND_DIR\etc\basiczone.com.zone
-- A zone file which stores information for a domain. In this example "basiczone.com"

BIND_DIR\etc\rndc.key
-- Required for rndc.exe to talk to named.exe

*** More things you should know

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> ISC BIND

Right-click the ISC BIND entry and select properties. From here you can start/stop/restart the server or set whether or not it starts on windows boot.

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Log -> Application Log

Unless you override this in named.conf, you will see BIND related errors and information in this system log.

*** End Orientation

Now that you can feel your way around things, and have template config files to start with, you should either know how to get everything working, or at least have a specific question to ask.

I'm the interest of time i took advantage of your services silentrage and created an account. setup master and reverse zone for my clients domain www.omniaphexx.com (registered with godaddy)

It hasnt quite been the time required (24-48hrs) perhaps but i'm hoping it should get the domain working for now.

Please don't post stuff in other people's threads unless you're helping the person. But it looks like you've got it working.