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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:44:08 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>
Cc:        Tony <tony@idk.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to specifiy nameserver
Message-ID:  <20010831114408.E57354@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <006801c131bf$f69ec780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:55:08PM -0700
References:  <200108310127.SAA19066@idk.com> <006801c131bf$f69ec780$14ce21c7@avatar.com>

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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
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