MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert

[Derek D. Martin]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:28:07PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> 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?

Yes, sort of.  DNS is the protocol, BIND is the implementation most
commonly used, and named is the daemon name.

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

That's what's provided by the caching-nameserver package.  The
configuration points to the root servers.  Your server will do
recursive queries of the root servers to get the IP addresses.


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

It certainly could, that's up to you.  That's what /etc/resolv.conf
does.  If you put 127.0.0.1 in there as your name server, the linux
box will use itself.

> Thanks.

You're welcome!

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