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hello, I have freebsd stable setup on a pentium pc and I have 
a windows-95 pc connected to it through a thin ethernet connection.

I have stup apche's http server on it and can telnet and get to my web 
pages on the server but only if i set my browser to go to the servers'
ip address. it fails when i point it to it's name "mydomain.com", and 
returns the error message "the system does not have a dns entry".

how do i setup my server as a dns server a "fake dns server of course" 
... although i only have the 2-machines running and connected together, 
so that my win95 pc's web browser finds my http server when i point it to 
it's name?

thank you for your help ...

-eddiev