Rod Pike wrote:
> Bob Chiodini wrote:
>
> > Rod Pike wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > It's been a while since I've monitored the list. I'm currently running
> > > diald on a RH5.1 box and it's been running pretty smoothly expept for
> > > Netscape bringing up the link when it's initially launched. I'm
> > > thinking of setting up another linux server/gateway to move over to and
> > > wondering if I should stick with RH5.x or move up to RH6.x or another
> > > distribution with the latest kernel and deal with IPchains?
> > >
> >
> > Make sure you have your news and mail servers defined in your /etc/hosts
> > file. Netscape seems to do a DNS lookup of those upon startup. Also, if not
> > already done, add the following to ~/.netscape/libpres.js:
> >
> > user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);
> >
> > Stop netscape before editting the file.
> >
>
> Finally, all is quiet on the eastern front. I'm running a caching nameserver.
> Is there any way that I can accomplish the same thing using the named
> configuration files?
>
> Rod
Rod,
I've only played a little with named, and never figured out how to serve the
addresses of mail and news hosts, which are not part of my local network..
The Name Server Operators Guide "implies" that you cannot change ORIGINS in the
named hosts file. Therefore, not allowing your named to serve-up addresses outside
of the domain in which the name server resides, except for those that are cached.
Maybe someone else has an idea.
Why not "push" a common /etc/hosts file to each host in your network via rcp or ftp
or you could run NIS and establish the appropriate maps. In either of those cases
you would have to "visit" each host.
Sorry for the lack of help.
Bob...
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