MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes:

> 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?

Well, bind is one possibility, yes -- there are others.

> > 	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?

The nameserver comes with all the necessary files to lookup names on
its own -- in particular, the list of root nameservers.  That's all it
needs.  The file /etc/resolv.conf tells your applications how to resolve
names.

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

You can run bind without changing /etc/resolv.conf, if you wish
(although I don't know WHY you would want to do that).  If you don't
change /etc/resolv.conf, then the Linux box will not use the local
nameserver but your windows boxes (when configured) will use your
Linux box's nameserver.

> Thanks.

-derek

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