Kurt Neufeld wrote:
> I setup a DNS server on my machine last night with my own 'domain', and it
> works great.
>
> However, I have a question. In my file I have
>
> news CNAME news.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com.
> www CNAME www.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com.
> mail CNAME mail.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com.
>
> and I can just put 'mail' in eudora and it automatically goes out to the
> proper server and life is good.
>
> But in nslookup when I type in mail I get:
> Name: lh1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com
> Address: 24.64.2.54
> Aliases: mail.mydomain.net, mail.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com
>
> My question is the alias mail.mydomain.net. Will this ever cause a problem
> and can I/should I get rid of this and do it another way.
It shouldn't matter that you have aliases.
> While I'm asking questions, is there no way for DNS to look at my hosts
> file instead of me having to type in:
> workstation1 A 192.168.1.2
> etc...
>
> And yes, my host.conf file says "order hosts,bind" but DNS doesn't seem to
> look at that file, so from my windows machines, the hosts file might as
> well not exist.
named will never consult /etc/hosts. /etc/hosts is used solely by the
resolver (e.g. gethostbyname), and will only affect clients which are
running on the local host.
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