Re: reverse DNS lookup on local machine
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:36:19PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> now that testing's ssh goes out on the net to do reverse namelookups,
> I, again, am looking in ways to provide reverse DNS lookups
> preferrably without having to run bind. any pointers?
try pdnsd, it it a lightweight caching nameserver, that will take your
hosts out of /etc/hosts and put them in its resolver. or you can define
them in your config file either way.
later
>
> What I want is "host myhost.local.domain" to work.
>
> "host localhost." (yes with a trailing dot) works, but other names
> for my local machine choke:(
>
>
> #### some config files
>
> $ cat /etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
>
>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain local.domain
> nameserver ipnr-of-isp's-nameserver
>
>
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.1.1 myhost.local.domain myhost
>
>
> $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
> # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
> # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
>
> passwd: compat
> group: compat
> shadow: compat
>
> hosts: files dns
> networks: files
>
> protocols: db files
> services: db files
> ethers: db files
> rpc: db files
>
> netgroup: nis
>
>
> -- groetjes, carel
>
>
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