Guten tag. Usually I use OpenBSD on the desktop and have no cause to get my head around any sophisticated networking. The extent I usually go to is choosing a machine name and accepting the default domain which is home I think. I end up with this in myname(5): # cat myname david.home
I have a static IP from my ISP which gives me a real world name: pppxxx-xx.static.internode.on.net I am wondering if there is a possibility of incorporating this into myname(5) and if there are any advantages or disadvantages to this. I want to learn more about DNS on OpenBSD and figure this is possibly a good start - rather than trying to get it working using two different names. Can someone please confirm whether I have this correct: /etc/hosts is a list of known machines for quick resolving without using external DNS servers or named. /etc/resolv.conf is instructions telling lookups whether to use the hosts file and what external DNS server to query. Also whether to use named. /etc/named.conf is the settings for running the local DNS server. I am looking through named.conf(5) and it is reasonably complex (for me). Are there any cheap setups that work? At the moment this is optional for me (BIND) but I would like to put some effort into it. Best wishes. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
