On Thursday, June 17, 1999 5:15 AM, Wookey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Fri 11 Jun, Jeff Rauenhorst wrote:
>
> > Here's my question: I have a local network with DNS running. Whenever it
> > resolves the local names, it starts up diald. Can I set it up so that it
> > does not attempt to query an outside DNS server when answering local DNS
> > queries? (I'm running named 8.2)
> .
>
> There seems to be no way to stop named calling out whenever it feels like
> it (typically several times an hour). The only thing you can do is use
> the lines in the standard.filter, which stop named-named packets bringing
> the link up.
>
Turning on debugging for named will tell you what names are being looked up,
and then you may be able to define these locally.
When I had this problem I found that the Windows workgroup name was being
looked up, so I defined this as an alias for my Linux machine in the named tables.
>
> For me I think a better option would be to not run named at all and just
> let the resolver library go an ask off-site, but I'm not sure if this
> will work. Also it seems that my local /etc/hosts is being ignored some
> of the time, and I don't really understand enough about how it all hangs
> to gether to work out a) how things should be configured and b) the best
> options for all this stuff.
/etc/hosts only gets used by the Unix box for its own lookups
(/etc/host.conf defines the order in which lookups occur.
Mine says "order hosts, bind", which causes /etc/hosts to
be checked first, and then the nameserver if /etc/hosts doesn't
have the required information).
Requests from other machines go directly to the nameserver
(and/or Wins service if this is defined), and do not look at /etc/hosts.
>
>
--brian
Brian Boutel
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