Re: DNS question, maybe

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:49:07AM -0000, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> I think I understand what you mean ... make all the PCs use the Linux box as 
> primary DNS, make the Linux box point to my provider for anything it doesn't 
> know.

Yes.

> Is that right? And if so could someone point me to a nice, simple doc on how 
> to do this (and yes I'll do a quick search for a HOW-TO on DNS).

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html is a good starting
point.  And as Jonathan (I think it was) was pointing out
recently, the O'Reilly DNS and BIND book is an excellent
reference.

> >But if you want to keep using the provider directly for DNS,
> >you could add 10.0.1.88 to the 'hosts' file on *each* window
> >machine:
> 
> Each machine!? Yuckie yuck yuck!!

True, but not as bad as it sounds.  For an (embarrassingly)
long time, we kept a master hosts file on a shared drive, and
the same batch file that would set the client PC clocks on
booting would also copy over the master 'hosts' and 'lmhosts'
files.


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