On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Roger wrote:
> it looks like it originates from the "reverse dns" look up takes place for nfs.
>
> it's trying to reverse lookup 192.168.0.1 which is a local (madeup) dns name.
>
> gotta find a place to list it so that it sees this before going to the @home
> name servers to find the ip! that's what it looks to me.
For a simple network you don't need a name server - just list all your
network nodes and their aliases in /etc/hosts on each machine - that is what
it is for. Then ensure your resolv sequence is hosts, dns so that it always
looks first in /etc/hosts.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.