Well -- what seemed odd to me was that I was using 192.168.0.40
as a client address, and I figured it would automatically see this as
a local address and not attempt to do a DNS lookup. I finally gave
in and added the ip address to the hosts file.
Bill
>
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Bill Perpelitt wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem. I'm sure there's a more graceful answer
> > than the one I've come up with, but I just added the ip addresses of
> > my clients (just a few, fortunately) to the /etc/hosts file.
> >
> > My system was connecting to my isp everytime there was a DNS
> > request, even if the address was local to my network. The above fix
> > handled it. There's probably a smarter way to get this to work, but
> > for a few stations, the above worked for me.
>
> No, that's the simplest way to fix that problem. If you need to resolve
> local host addresses, there has to be a local way of looking them up -
> otherwise the resolver will attempt to query the real nameserver, bringing
> up the link just to be told (unless you used a name that does exist out
> there, whcih will cause other difficulties) that nope, this name is
> unknown.
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