[752] in linux-net channel archive
Re: nameserver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ray)
Sat Jul 22 02:10:35 1995
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:26:38 -0700 (MST)
From: David Ray <davidr@terrestrial.com>
To: Temptation <temp@temptation.interlog.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950718061850.350B-100000@temptation.interlog.com>
On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Temptation wrote:
>
> nslookup will work with both my local named, and the remote on,
> netscape works, finds hosts correctly, but telnet, ftp, whois, etc, say
> unknown server. all my other machines work, when I rename their HOSTNAME,
I don't know if this helps you out but I had a similar problem with my
name server when I was trying to figure out how to add multiple domains.
In my named.boot, I used a period as my zone instead of my domain. As is
the case, named thought my named.hosts was my list of root servers.
At that point in time, I could only resolve local host names.
I then replaced the "." that was my zone with "@" and used fully
qualified host names in my other named.whatever files. This seems
to work; however I am unclear as to wheather or not this is the correct way
to setup a nameserver.
( If you haven't guessed, this is new to me. )
In any case, I hope you find this information useful and correct.
