On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 09:30, James Webster wrote: > I've got a small home network of 3 desktop machines and an occasional laptop. > Until now, I've used the hosts file for name resolution. Just out of > interest, I thought I would try to set up DNS/bind instead. (What is it > about Linux users that we can't let things be?) After some problems I've > finally got DNS/bind to work for the machines on the home network. However, > name resolution doesn't work at all when I'm on-line and connected to my ISP. > Any suggestions?
If your using kppp to connect check you havent ticked 'disable existing dns when connected' else that shuts down local dns when your online HTH David -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
