From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 16: 3:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830A037B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA49892; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39C3FC56.A2E68BC8@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:03:50 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-091 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Tomlinson, Drew" Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Subject: Re: Help With named.conf References: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C4C93@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Tomlinson, Drew" wrote: > Thank you. I have set my email client to plain text. Please let me > know if it isn't received that way and I'll look into it. No joy. Look again. :) > Will this be perceived as a DNS server from my other nodes? No, but you can add your entries to the hosts files on the windows machines too. Look for c:\windows\HOSTS.sam, edit it with notepad and save it as HOSTS. You will probably have to rename it from HOSTS.txt to HOSTS after you save it, since windows is retarded. I have a home network here, and I have never bothered to set up DNS for it. The entries don't change, so there is really no point. DNS is very difficult to get right, very easy to get wrong (in ways that are totally non-obvious) and really isn't worth it for what you want to do. I know, I do DNS for a living. :) Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message