Re: DNS

[Simon Kitching <simon@ecnetwork.co.nz>]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:07, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar <maguero@racsa.co.cr> writes:
> 
> > How can I specify the DNS server in debian/linux?
> >
> > Just to clarify, I don't want to set up a DNS Server (which is what
> > the DNS howto talks about). I just want to translate names to IPs.
> 
> man resolv.conf

If you just want to be able to refer to remote servers by name, you can
add entries to /etc/hosts.

The command "man hosts" provides more info.

Or have I misunderstood?

Regards,

Simon