Michael, At 09:38 AM 1/4/02 -0600, you wrote: > >Who fulfills DNS requests for local machines if not anoka? I've been told > >that bind doesn't look at /etc/hosts, which brought my world crashing down. > >Now what? :-) > > > >Thanks for your patience with me, I'm sure we're nearly at the bottom of >this. > > > >julian. > >if you are running DNS (named / bind), on anoka, and have the others set to >look at anoka for dns, then anoka will look at the files under /var/named >(or whatever the directory option is set to in /etc/named.conf). > >These files (either directly under /var/named, or under some subdirectory >(possibly zone), are what will equate a name to an IP on your local network.
Now we seem to be getting somewhere ... >To set all this up, you'd have to learn bind's syntax for what it calls >'zone' files. AHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! So bind DOES do local DNS, it just doesn't use /hosts to do it. It uses another file type. Bingo!!! I think this is the diamond I've been looking for! Thanks! I'll go off and research that. Thanks again. Julian. ============================== >Michael > >-- >Michael Viron >Registered Linux User #81978 >Senior Systems & Administration Consultant >Web Spinners, University of West Florida > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ==============================
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