Re: how to properly add a dns server

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On Seg, 11 Mar 2013, ChadDavis wrote:
> I don't want to override it.  I want to add additional nameservers that
> "know" about a domain that I need to resolve.  My networking knowledge is
> kind of thin, but I suspect that this requirement for the other nameservers
> has something to do with the details of intranet segregation in our
> corporation . . . does that make sense?  So, I only want to add them as
> additional lookup sources, coming after the nameservers that the DHCP
> client discovers as the ones suitable for my own host.  Feel free to point
> out areas that seem that I really completely don't know what I'm talking
> about ;)

As others have explained, that's not how DNS works.

What you probably want is dnsmasq.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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