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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following:

JO>Remember that a LAN machine making a DNS request doesn't know yet if
JO>the machine whose IP address it wants is on the same network or off
JO>in Outer Mongolia. 

DNS doesn't care about local or remote. It's simply a protocol.

JO>If it's configured to make DNS requests to the local DNS server,
JO>shouldn't that local server DNS have a file containing static
JO>mappings for it's own DNS authority? Something like a hosts file, in
JO>fact?

The bind configuration contains whatever mappings you give it. It has 
zero to do with the host file.

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