On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Cyrus Patel wrote:
>
> Hi Rajeev,
>
> One of the things that still blows me away about Linux is that it
> doesn't need external DNS servers to work. There is a package called
> bind which makes your computer a DNS server.
>
> Just install the package (on most dists it is installed by default)
> and in your resolve.conf put the line
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> Hope this helps
> Cyrus
>
Actually, I was referring to connecting to the net only with my linux
desktop as a client.
I had no intention of making my m/c a DNS server. Or
do I have my concepts of DNS wrong?
> Rajeev B.S.Rao [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Does the DNS numbers have to be entered into resolv.conf. Can linux
> > automatically detect them, the way Windows does?
> >
> > Rajeev
> >
> >
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> Dept. of Computer Engineering Debian GNU/Linux
> University of New South Wales (Potato)
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