At risk of sounding horribly new.. please bear with me =)

I am at a point where several of my tutorial books offer generic 
advice but only specific to  SunOS systems at this point.

Would someone offer some tips as well as scripts used for the following:

1. I need to learn what exactly needs to be put in to the named.conf 
file.  I have configured the follwing file according to the tutorials 
online as well as Unix System Admin handbook:

reslov.conf
named.boot

when I type named,  I get the dialog that says named.conf can not be 
opened.  I never created it or was told I had to via the docs I have 
been learning from.

2. Somewhere I was instructed on including the following in my named.boot file:

directory  /var/domain

this dir contains these following files:. dns1.hosts, dsn.rev, 
forward, local.rev, reverse, root . I typed my entire DNS profile, 
nameservers and Domain names I host.  Did I follow the instructions 
correctly by placing them within this dir?

(why are there so many conflicting ways / styles to do this?  For 
newbies like me,  I can understand how people can go insane with Unix 
=)


3. Not proficient at spelling our rules for NAT but I am in need of 
protecting my environment. Is there a strong set of rules I can find 
and possibly parse through to include in my ipnat.conf file?   Would 
gratefully accept submissions ;)

thanks for everyones attention and help.  I hope I don't sound too 
much like a whiner!

mark Nathan
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