On Friday 21 December 2001 3:32 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:48:37 +1100 > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > Just to rule a line under this one - my problem with this is definitely > > resolved. Many thanks to Ed in particular for much perserverance and > > some off list help as well. > > > > It may be worth noting for fellow newbies who set up LM as a server - > > choosing the server partitioning during install seems to result in DNS > > being run by default. I guess that's a reasonable thing for it to do, > > but if you are setting up a home/small office network, then chances are > > you don't need this. > > > > I guess the simplest advice would be, that if you are setting up a > > machine as a server and you don't know why you would need a local DNS, > > then you probably don't and wouldn't know how to configure it properly > > anyway. So jump into DrakConf, access "Services" which sit under > > "System" and switch the sucker off! > > > > cheers > > Brian > > Brian, > > I've got DNS running happily. it was ypbind and yppasswd that was ruining > everything on my network. how's come DNS did you wrong?
Mark, I'm sure it would work fine if configured - I assume that the reason it slowed everything down so much was that it was running, but without really being set up. As I haven't yet set one up (except by mistake) I don't really know what was the REAL issue. Anyway, I'm certainly happy without it! cheers Brian
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