I thought I had done this, already... Which files are they, I don't recall
now.
(I don't like linuxconf, as it hoses my system config files for some reason)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward William E PHDN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:36 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Redhat and DSL
>
> Sure! Change the order that your machine checks the names....
> set it to check files first, then dns. You should be able
> to do this in a number of places, including Linuxconf.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burke, Thomas G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Redhat and DSL
>
>
> Sorry to come in late to this exchange...
>
> I ave no DNS installed on my machine. However, I am running an internal
> network 0n 192.168.68.x...
>
> These machines need to have names, so I chose names I new were unused on
> my
> ISP's network - thus, ny internal machines are [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> So, since I don't have DNS, these names aren't properly resolved...
>
> I have them in my hosts file, but my logs are full of:
>
> blah, blah gethostbyname(machinename): host not found.
>
> Otherwise, things seem to be working. However, I'd like to get rid of
> this
> garbage so my logs are a little easier to read.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Galpin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:51 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Redhat and DSL
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > However, a "caching only" nameserver, only serving the internal
> interface
> > can be a nice performance boost, and is safe. I had mentioned this
> > originaly (along with a dhcpd server) as an enhancement, and was
> probably
> > a bad idea to bring it up at that point :)
> >
> > Lets' hope he finds the time to read this thread before going off trying
> > to setup his own DNS then!
> >
> > charles
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > Yep. The only reason I said anything was he was proposing to set up
> > > his own dns server. In my opinion (which is worth less than the paper
> > > it's written on <G>) you should only set up a DNS server if you
> > > plan on running a domain off your machines, and even then, see if you
> > > can get your DNS hosted by someone else, due to the increasing
> > > fondness for attacking DNS servers! :-(
> > > John
> >
> >
> >
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