Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-07 Thread Ray Olszewski
Michael, I think you have confused the issue for John. There is nothing magic about the last two pieces of a domain name; a DNS server can assert it is authoritative for a domain name that has 3 or 4 or 5 pieces. (Examples are fairly common in TLDs that end in country codes; for example, here

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-07 Thread Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
Ray Olszewski wrote (on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:38:09PM -0700): | One low-tech solution that should work, BTW, is to add the hostname/IP | address pair to the hosts file on each workatation (/etc/hosts for Linux | workstations; I don't know the WinXX analog, though I do know there is | one).

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:07 AM 6/6/02 -0500, guitarlynn wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 21:54, John Mullan wrote: I have tried that as well. It allows the LEAF box to resolve mullan.dns2go.com to 192.168.1.128 (by using PING on the LEAF box) but nobody else on the network. They still get the external IP as

RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Erich Titl
Hi At 09:33 06.06.2002, you wrote: Message: 9 From: John Mullan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Lee Kimber' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:54:53 -0400 At 08:38 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, you wrote: I use DNS2GO to handle my

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Brad Fritz
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:09:38 PDT Ray Olszewski wrote: Jeff's response is the right one here -- the router (or some other host on the LAN) needs to run a DNS server that resolves FQNs of hosts on the LAN to their private addresses and forwards all other requests to a real nameserver. The

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread guitarlynn
On Thursday 06 June 2002 02:09, Ray Olszewski wrote: At 12:07 AM 6/6/02 -0500, guitarlynn wrote: By chance have any of you attempted to declare files before dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf??? By doing this, any host/network listed in nsswitch.conf should resolve according to the order listed in

RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread John Mullan
: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:09:38 PDT Ray Olszewski wrote: Jeff's response is the right one here -- the router (or some other host on the LAN) needs to run a DNS server that resolves FQNs of hosts on the LAN to their private addresses and forwards all other requests

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Brad Fritz
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:40:25 EDT you wrote: OK Brad. I've put tinydns on. I left the tinydns option for internal IP at 127.0.0.1 Is this the proper loopback interface address? Yes, it is: $ cat /etc/tinydns-private/env/IP 127.0.0.1 --Brad

RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread John Mullan
Fritz Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:13 PM To: John Mullan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:40:25 EDT you wrote: OK Brad. I've put tinydns on. I left the tinydns option for internal IP at 127.0.0.1 Is this the proper loopback interface

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Michael D. Schleif
John Mullan wrote: Thanks for you help so far Brad.. I'm sure I'm missing something, but no luck. I had tried to set it up so that dnscache watches 192.168.1.254 and looks to tinydns. Not sure if that is what is supposed to happen or if I even got it that way in any of my

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-06 Thread Brad Fritz
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:01:43 EDT you wrote: Thanks for you help so far Brad.. Glad to help. I'm sure I'm missing something, but no luck. I had tried to set it up so that dnscache watches 192.168.1.254 and looks to tinydns. Not sure if that is what is supposed to happen or if I even

RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-05 Thread John Mullan
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:18 PM To: John Mullan Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file I think you need /etc/network.conf - the main network config script. Looks for some lines about two thirds of the way down that deal with hosts and private.domain (unless you have changed

RE: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-05 Thread Jeff Newmiller
: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file I think you need /etc/network.conf - the main network config script. Looks for some lines about two thirds of the way down that deal with hosts and private.domain (unless you have changed it to something else already) The commented out host1 is an example

Re: [leaf-user] Using HOSTS file

2002-06-05 Thread guitarlynn
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 21:54, John Mullan wrote: I have tried that as well. It allows the LEAF box to resolve mullan.dns2go.com to 192.168.1.128 (by using PING on the LEAF box) but nobody else on the network. They still get the external IP as resolved by DNS2GO's servers. By chance have