At 12:07 AM 6/6/02 -0500, guitarlynn wrote: >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 21:54, John Mullan wrote: > > I have tried that as well. It allows the LEAF box to resolve > > "mullan.dns2go.com" to 192.168.1.128 (by using PING on the LEAF box) > > but nobody else on the network. They still get the external IP as > > resolved by DNS2GO's servers. > >By chance have any of you attempted to declare "files" before "dns" >in /etc/nsswitch.conf??? > >By doing this, any host/network listed in nsswitch.conf should resolve >according to the order listed in this .conf file.
This change affects ONLY host resolution by the router itself, and John reports that it already works fine. Jeff's response is the right one here -- the router (or some other host on the LAN) needs to run a DNS server that resolves FQNs of hosts on the LAN to their private addresses and forwards all other requests to a "real" nameserver. The LAN hosts then need to be told (via manual setup or DHCP or whatever) to use that nameserver for their DNS inquiries. In practice, I find it easier here to do all of this on a host separate from my router ... but my DNS requirements are elaborate enough to call for using full-size BIND. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
