[Sunhelp] DNS for a lan.

[Jonathan Eisch]

ok, well, I think I've got the probelm narrowed down.  I had put the
hosts file on the new box, after adding it to the file.  It has no
problem resolving the host names of comptuers on the internet (what the
DNS server has) but it can't resolve anything for the local lan.  So, I
guess that HP-UX isn't looking at the hosts file, for whatever reason. 
Can anyone think of why this might be?

However, once I get this straitend out, I guess I'd like to run a
cacheing DNS server (something that just caches DNS for my lan to use
quicker) what version of bind would I use?

-Jonathan

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:30:43PM -0500, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > it looks like I need to setup a DNS server for my lan, so that computers
> > know their own, and eachothers's names.  How would one go about that
> > (keep in mind this is a lan, with no domain set up or anything beyond
> > hostnames and hosts files.
> > -Jonathan
> 
> Why not just put the same /etc/hosts files on each machine?
> 
> Bill
> 
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