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MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert



On 2 Oct 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Setting up a caching-only nameserver requires you to:
> 	1) install the nameserver binary (this is easy under RedHat and Debian)

You mean bind?

> 	2) run the nameserver
> 	3) set resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1
>
> I would highly recommend you do this.

But how does the nameserver know how to lookup names?  /etc/resolv.conf?

My linux box would not itself be using the nameserver running on it,
right?

Thanks.

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