>Who fulfills DNS requests for local machines if not anoka? I've been told >that bind doesn't look at /etc/hosts, which brought my world crashing down. >Now what? :-) > >Thanks for your patience with me, I'm sure we're nearly at the bottom of this. > >julian.
if you are running DNS (named / bind), on anoka, and have the others set to look at anoka for dns, then anoka will look at the files under /var/named (or whatever the directory option is set to in /etc/named.conf). These files (either directly under /var/named, or under some subdirectory (possibly zone), are what will equate a name to an IP on your local network. To set all this up, you'd have to learn bind's syntax for what it calls 'zone' files. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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