This is a "quick and dirty", but direct port of a bind-4.9.2 nameserver
taken from a BSD4.4 distribution.

I have not done much testing yet, but it seems to run stable so far.

I'd like to emphasis that this server is NOT perfect, but I needed a
server with "full" functionality, compared with the two other servers
named.lha and named403.lha, that I've seen on Aminet.


Some of the features:

  * handles standard and inverse queries
  
  * supports query forwarding
  
  * allows zone transfers (via named-xfer)

  * allows query logging


The following things differ from the Unix version:  *** !!!!PLEASE READ CAREFUL!!!! ***

  * needs ixemul.library  (don't know the version... I use 47.3)
  
  * Configfile location defaults to "AmiTCP:db/named.boot" (can be changed by -b option)
  
  * named and named-xfer location is "AmiTCP:serv/"

  * The logfile (in debug mode) is stored as "AmiTCP:log/named.log"
  
  * The server may NOT be run from inetd  :-(
  
  * The only signal the server accepts is CTRL-C, which stops it.
    -> no database dumps or in/decreasing of debug level while running possible  :-(
	 
  * All files that the Unix version would store in "/var/tmp" will be stored in "T:"
  
  * No pid file is generated 
    -> named.reload / named.restart scripts won't work, so I did not include them in
	   this archive 
  
  * I removed some startup messages of the server that would cause my 
    AmiTCP-log winow to popup
  
  
INSTALLATION
============

To install it, run the "install.bat" script. This will install the daemons and the man
pages and add a small addition to the User-Startnet script.
(You will probably want to add AmiTCP:man to your man path to view the man pages correctly)

The configuration examples will NOT be installed, because they are only examples and won't
work!

So in order to get the server to work, you should first read the man pages that will be
installed in AmiTCP:man and then you should CREATE YOUR CONFIG FILES and restart AmiTCP.

Good luck...

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 1156    2188  52.8% -lh5- 6c92 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/bind-4.9.2.readme
[generic]                   89     106  84.0% -lh5- f626 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/db/user-startnet.addon
[generic]                  168     319  52.7% -lh5- 9216 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/examples/localhost.rev
[generic]                  318     636  50.0% -lh5- 83d9 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/examples/named.boot
[generic]                  741    2769  26.8% -lh5- 2814 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/examples/root.cache
[generic]                  108     163  66.3% -lh5- efcd Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/install.bat
[generic]                 1161    1612  72.0% -lh5- 7581 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/install.bat.info
[generic]                 2439    5414  45.0% -lh5- 480f Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/man/man8/named-xfer.8
[generic]                 6544   16063  40.7% -lh5- b63a Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/man/man8/named.8
[generic]                61301  116472  52.6% -lh5- 9e81 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/serv/named
[generic]                17600   34564  50.9% -lh5- 93b1 Jul 11  1999 bind-4.9.2/serv/named-xfer
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        11 files   91625  180306  50.8%            Jul 12  1999