You shouldn't need DNS. Seems more work than it's worth in this case.
Just use the IP address of the web server in the URL (http://172.16.0.1)
and bookmark it if you don't want to type it in.
DNS is just meant to help us humans better interface with the numerical IP
world;)
Alan Melick, NOC Engineer II
Fuse Internet Access
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Donald G. Knecht wrote:
>
> anyone got some pointers on DNS setup? I do not have a network, but
> understand that a DNS server is required for proper operation of PPP .
> I have setup ppp server so i can dial in from work. i have been able to
> configure a local cache nameserver using localhost 127.0.0.1,
> naturally windows95 does not allow 127.x.x.x address in thier dial-up
> networking config, so i added a lan ip address i saw in some how-to :
> 172.16.0.1 and then ppp would work as far as connecting but still have
> no DNS .......anytime i try to point my web browser on the ms machine to
> the server (the linux box) it reports host not found. actually the only
> address the w95 machine would ever ask for is the name of the host.
> btw: outbound ppp works fine using kppp which writes my isp's dns
> addresses to resolv.conf
> don
>
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