--As of May 3, 2009 11:10:49 AM +0930, David Walker is alleged to have said:
> 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. Bingo: That's just about perfect, I think. (And note from that you can both run named and not use it...) > 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. I think the 'default' setup works for most uses straight out of the box. (I haven't checked recently, I'll admit.) The most likely thing you'd have to change is what interfaces/addresses named will listen on: I've seen some defaults that would only listen on 127.0.0.1 to the local box. As for having your hostname match what a DNS query returns: It's not necessary, except for certain uses as an internet-facing server. It's often nice to have just one name for things, but often the one assigned by you ISP isn't a great one. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
