Hi At 01:44 04.05.2004 -0400, freeman wrote:
.... >So once again thank you to the list, and in particular to Victor! > >My piddly questions are these: > - shouldn't having 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf permit the fw itself to resolve from > itself no differently than adding in 192.168.0.254 (addy of the fw's private-network > interface?) The way I see it: 127.0.0.1 = the fw, and 192.168.0.254 = the fw, mais > non? 127.0.0.1 is the address of the firewalls lo interface. I suspect dnscache was _not_ listening on that address. > - do I care that I don't have a 'search lan' line in my resolv.conf? What does > this do? I read up via 'man resolv.conf' but it didn't make much sense to me: > perhaps because I don't quite understand what a "domain search path" is. The domain search path is a list of suffices which allow you to search for _not_ fully qualified hosts, e.g. using a search patch containing mydomain.org allows you to find myhost.mydomain.org using just the name myhost. cheers Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id66&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
