[lug] DNS and hosts file

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Thanks Ralf,
That was it.  I had experimented with forwarders before and experienced problems.  But this time around it worked just fine, which tells me that I had done something wrong before.

Thanks again,
Ferdinand

rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:40:15PM -0600, Ferdinand P. Schmid wrote:
> > HI,
> > I am noticing that computers that act as caching and local DNS servers
> > are having problems with local name resolution.
> > - If I include the server itself in my resolv.conf then it won't go out
> > to the real DNS servers to look up Internet addresses.
> > - If I don't include the server in the resolv.conf then it can't look up
> > internal network addresses because it only searches the Internet
> > servers.  The workaround seems to be to enter all the local hosts also
> > in the local hosts file.
> >
> > Is there a more elegant way to configure this so that I only need to
> > maintain one set of address tables for the DNS?  Basically I want to
> > tell the system to use the local DNS rather than the local hosts file.
> >
>
> You could simply configure your local DNS server (which you only use
> to resolve internal names/addresses, i assume) to also answer queries
> for external names. If you use a newer version of the bind server you can
> add:
>
> options {
>
>  ...
>
>    forwarders {
>       19n.nnn.nnn.nnn;
>    };
>
>  ...
>
> };
>
> to the named configuration file. All queries for zones not covered by
> the local server will be forwarded to the server(s) given here.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>    Ralf
>
> _______________________________________________
> Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.us
> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug