On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:20 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:10, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> Yes, just stick 'nameserver a.b.c.d' in /etc/resolv.conf where > a.b.c.d is the address of your local nameserver. > > There's a bunch of nameservers in Debian. I looked at a few of them, > needing a DNS that would be authoritative for the local network and > pass everything else on to my ISP if my dialup was up. I found > dnsmasq to be the simplest to set up, and it's nice and lightweight. > > Pigeon I am using a coyote firewall with fixed IP's internally optionally using dns, so that my print server has a fixed IP but a laptop plugged in can get a local address. I don't have enough memory on that 486 to want to have a cache on it, so I have another caching dns on the print server. It is pdnsd which is designed with this specific purpose, and it is in stable I believe. Two is probably not better than one, but it is a lot easier to set up. DaveA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
