On Monday, 07/17/2006 at 08:57 CST, "Richard Feldman (WFF)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean that if you are using a DNS, in our case a > Namesrv as a secondary caching DNS, that you don't require the 'HOSTS' > set of files?
Correct. The hosts files are used according to the DOMAINLOOKUP specification in TCPIP DATA. The default is to look in the hosts files only if not found in the DNS. If you want to *override* a DNS entry, then you need to code "DOMAINLOOKUP FILES" so that the hosts files are searched before the DNS. I should also say that unless you have very heavy usage of DNS, there's no point in running a caching name server on VM. Just let the requests flow out to the network. Linux can have its own DNS cache (man dnscache) and so won't benefit from a central cache. The VM caching-only name server was designed for non-caching DNS clients such as CMS. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
