On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:49, Alan Mead wrote: > My Question: How do I configure DNS on my network machines? I can > imagine these options:
That depends on whether or not you are using the dnscache package. If so, only use the 192.168.1.254 address because dnscache uses your ISP's DNS, caches the ip addresses you go to, and resolves common ones faster than your ISP's DNS will. If you got rid of dnscache, only use your ISP's DNS servers, not the Dachstein server. > (1) Will the Dachstein box handle this automagically if I list it as > the sole DNS? If so, this is simple. see above. It will with dhcp, but not with static ip's on the LAN. > (2) Shall I figure out the insightbb DNS servers and then list them > by IP in the hopes that they won't change? How do I get the IP's > from DHCP? What happens if my IP lease expires and the DNS servers > are different for my new IP (or is this wildly unlikely)? dhclient/udhcpc does this automagically .... set CONFIG_DNS to "NO" in network.conf if you are using DHCP on your cable connection. > (3) Is there a way to configure Windows and Linux machines to only > accept the DNS information via DHCP? Yep, it comes with the DHCP lease from Dachstein. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
