From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 21:21:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34E537B403 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BF3866ACF0; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:44:08 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:44:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: Tony , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to specifiy nameserver Message-ID: <20010831114408.E57354@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200108310127.SAA19066@idk.com> <006801c131bf$f69ec780$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006801c131bf$f69ec780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:55:08PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 30 August 2001 at 18:55:08 -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > On Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:27 PM, Tony wrote: >> >> If I am not running named locally, how do I specify using DSN on my ISP? >> >> I think that it's in one of the /etc/host* but I do not know which or the >> format to add this. > > You put it in /etc/resolv.conf. Type "man resolv.conf" for detailed > information. Basically, do something like this in /etc/resolv.conf > > domain your-domain-name > nameserver ip-address-of-the-nameserver You seem to be understanding more than I am. For me, DSN means "delivery status notification", and it's an MTA function, not a name server function. The real question, though, is "why not run named?". It's trivial to set up a caching-only name server, and it's much faster than using remote name servers or /etc/hosts. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message