On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:48:37 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> Just to rule a line under this one - my problem with this is definitely > resolved. Many thanks to Ed in particular for much perserverance and some > off list help as well. > > It may be worth noting for fellow newbies who set up LM as a server - > choosing the server partitioning during install seems to result in DNS being > run by default. I guess that's a reasonable thing for it to do, but if you > are setting up a home/small office network, then chances are you don't need > this. > > I guess the simplest advice would be, that if you are setting up a machine as > a server and you don't know why you would need a local DNS, then you probably > don't and wouldn't know how to configure it properly anyway. So jump into > DrakConf, access "Services" which sit under "System" and switch the sucker > off! > > cheers > Brian Brian, I've got DNS running happily. it was ypbind and yppasswd that was ruining everything on my network. how's come DNS did you wrong? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:05pm up 4 days, 14:54, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.58, 0.36
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