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Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au> writes:

> 
> pkdoc1@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au (Phillip Dockley) writes:
> 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > 	Does any have a quick and easy guide (not the HOWTO) on how to
> > set up a DNS under slackware running kernel ver 2.
> > 
> > The dns would be for a local network ie no internet access !!
> > 
> > Phill
> 
> I have been looking for something like that myself, but I am using
> a dial-up link to access the net and that may complicate things a bit.
> 
> I have searched for a ``cookbook recipe'' for my specific situation,
> but no success so far.

2 Parts to the response:

Phillip:

Why on EARTH would you want DNS on an internal/local network? If you're not
connected to the Net, use NIS with your hosts file in the maps.

DNS really only works where you can pass a query up to a "canonical"
root server for a domain.

Manfred:


You're in a bit of a bind. If you want to dial up intermittently
dial up and then make DNS enquiries, then you want a caching nameserver
(it's in the named docs). If you're thinking of just dialing up,
snarfing the latest "nameserver stuff", then logging off, sorry, no
dice. DNS don't work that way.

You'll both need to look into resolver order and stuff. Try and ferret out
a copy of "DNS and Bind" from the ORA Nutshell series.

Cheers

Saundo

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