On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:46:16PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach Charles Curley am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:45:49PM -0600:
>
> > Set resolve.conf up as follows:
> >
> > search localdomain
> > nameserver 127.0.0.1
> > nameserver <ip of ISP's name server>
> > nameserver <ip of ISP's secondary name server>
> >
> > where localdomain is your local domain.
> >
> > Set up host.conf:
> >
> > order hosts,bind
> > multi on
>
> Is that really it? Wouldn't this make the programs on my computer use
> 127.0.0.1 as the DNS, and only when my bind isn't accessible they would do
> the lookups in my ISP's name servers? Ie: With these settings, would my
> bind really do the lookups in the ISP's name servers?
Well, I'm no guru, but that stuff works on my computers and home
network.
Now, I did not look at bind's setup files; see the DNS HOWTO for that. I
set up a simple non-authoritative caching server, and that works for me. I
have all my local systems in /etc/hosts so I don't have to much around
with an authoritative server for my network.
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