-----Original Message-----
From: Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: DNS question
>At 09:06 AM 4/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have set up a DNS server for my home network and everything seems to
work
>>fine, except when I telnet into the dns server and try to ping another
>>machine from there it can't seem to resolv the name. As far as I can tell
>>everything is set-up correctly anyone have any ideas?
>>BTW I am running RH 6.2
>>Brad
>>
>Brad,
> From your message, I get the impression that the name server works
>from other machines on the network, but not from the name server?
this is correct.
>so, check /etc/resolver.conf and /etc/host.conf to make sure you are
>set up to use the name server on that machine.
Boy am I stupid, That is the one thing I didn't check.
It's always good to get a view from someone who hasn't been staring at the
same files for 2 hours trying to figure out what ias wrong.
Thanks for the help.
Brad
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