On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:08 am, you wrote: > Hello Matt, > Just noticed your answer to this post, and was wondering if you could > help me sort out a problem. > I've finally got dhcp, samba, bastille and nat(sharing dialup > connection) working on lm80, but just don't understand how to set up dns on > a local network. I have run all the tests on samba, and everything works ok > except that I can ping by name from linux to win98 but only by ip from > win98 to linux. this appears to point to incorrect dns settings but I have > no idea where to start. > btw, I need to use dhcp so my laptop can be used at home and work. > All I know about named is using it as a caching dns. My internal network asks named for dns resolution, named asks my ISP's dns for the info, and then keeps a copy of it internally so it can serve it up itself next time the information is needed.
If you have a small private network, hosts files are probably a better solution. In the file /etc/hosts, add in the IP address then the host name for each computer on your network. Then in Windows, do the same with C:\windows\hosts (win9x), or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (winNT, 2000). Check this out for a good explanation: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-iface.simple-resolv.html Matt _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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