On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:58:38 +0000, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using dnsmasq in my networks, with wich I was happy till my ISP > changed nameservers and I was left without a network of 10 machines > complaining they had no Internet... > > Well, I decided to setup BIND on those machines, but I am missing a > feature of dnsmasq that I can't find a way to setup bind with: > dnsmasq reads /etc/hosts and is able to respond to queries to whatever > is in that file... we can setup /etc/hosts with: > 192.168.1.1 myserver > 192.168.1.2 proxy > 192.168.1.3 printServer > > and query from the network for these names... > Does anyone knows how to setup bind to do this? It ony seems to be able > to read configs for domains/zones, and I've tried > zone "" > with no sucess... > > I know how to work around this: I setup my local network names in > "mydomain" zone and setup all my clients to "search mydomain"... but > before doing all these changes I would like to be sure there is no way > to do what dnsmasq did... > > Anyone knows? >
IIRC you need to add a line "order hosts,bind" on your /etc/host.conf... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
