Richard Melville wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:-
> 
>> And remove the nameserver 192.168.1.1 line unless that system has a
>> properly installed nameserver installed.
> 
> Are you sure about that Bruce?  I'm away from home at present and so I can't
> check any of my LFS boxes, but I'm fairly certain that my only "nameserver"
> line in resolv.conf is 192.168,0,1, which is my router. The router holds a
> list of my ISP's nameservers.

I don't know what you router does, but the way DNS works is that it sends UDP 
packets to the addresses (port 53) specified in the nameserver line asking for 
the name resolution.  If a nameserver is not installed, it must wait for a 
timeout to go to the next nameserver in the list.

You may indeed have a caching only nameserver in your router in which case what 
you have is OK.

   -- Bruce



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