[Sunhelp] DNS for a lan.

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> 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?

On Linux I would ask what the contents of /etc/host.conf is

> 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?

BIND 8.2.2patch5

There are few reasons (that I can think of, at least) why one would use
anything else

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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