[Sunhelp] DNS for a lan.

[Jonathan Eisch]

Hey, I found it.  It isn't in /etc by default.  They hide a copy in
/usr/newconfig/etc/ and then you have to make your modifications to the
default (which is what the file is) and put it in your /etc.  Cool.

-Jonathan

Kevin_Stevens wrote:
> 
> Check the nsswitch.conf file in /etc and make sure the
> hosts: entry says "files dns".  This tells the resolver to check the hosts
> file before querying dns.  How HP-UX accomplishes this I have no idea, but
> you want the same thing to happen.
> 
> KeS
> 
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> 
> > 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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> > > Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
> > >   mrbill at mrbill.net
> > >     Austin, TX
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