BIND Configuration File (named.conf)
In order to make your name server do anything useful, you need to make sure that it is topologically in the right place with respect to its clients and the rest of the network, and that it is configured to interoperate properly with other name servers. A misconfigured name server can result in deluges of DNS traffic between your server and the root servers as it tries futilely to synchronize its data. Your /etc/namedb/named.conf file must be constructed properly, and so it needs to be understood properly.
Fortunately, BIND 8 (the version included in FreeBSD at the time of this writing, probably soon to be replaced with BIND 9) greatly simplifies many of the esoteric details of name server configuration that ...
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