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Re: DNS Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hUnTeR)
Sun Nov 8 19:35:29 1998
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 19:33:20 -0500
From: hUnTeR <hunter@esprit.net>
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Justin Oelgoetz wrote:
>
> I have a caching DNS server running on my home machine. It works if I
> put in nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in my resolv.conf (where
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address I get from my ISP) it does not work if
> I put in 127.0.0.1 or the address of an internal NIC (Which is not
> connected to a network, but is pingable). Manually editing the
> resolv.conf file everytime I connect is annoying to say the least, and I
> could write a script, but it seems the DNS should work w/ 127.0.0.1.
> Any ideas?
well you could always add a dns server that exists in the real world,
like your ISP for example. Depending on which version of BIND you are
running, check the /etc/named.conf and make sure you have the
named.local (or whatever name you gave it) zone file set up properly as
well as the reverse zone (i.e. 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA). Here is an example
from /etc/named.conf (BIND 8)
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
};
so the named.local zone does your reverse and all others look to the
named.ca which is simply a list of root name servers.
HTH
--
Michael B. Weiner
Systems Administrator/Partner
The UserFriendly Network (UFN)
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