Re: hosts, resolv setup?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> No hits at debian-user, trying debian-devel.
>
> Can someone explain to me how to set up /etc/hosts and
> /etc/resolv.conf for ssh (and similar programs) _not_ to search for my
> local network host names using the external nameservers in
> resolv.conf?
>
> The local network is built up with NICs. I'm not using bind on my
> debian host. It's installed on the gateway, but I dont think its
> configured correctly. (Is bind really needed? In case, how to
> configure bind correctly? Pointers?)
I just stumbled for a extremely neat solution for that: 'dnrd' is a very simple
that is slim enough to install it on any machine where the /etc/hosts
configuration is not flexible enough. It simply handles a list of local host
as a master DNS server and forwards anything else flexibly to any other DNS
server which can be configured on-the-fly. (e.g. depending on what connections are
up.)
dnrd is packaged in Debian. (IMO, with 'dnrd', there should be hardly any reason
to install 'bind' at all in a standard network with not too many machines.)
Ciao,
Nobbi
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