Hi Dave, Julian,
Although most has already been said I can't keep myself from jumping on this
wagon ;).
> > I thought (don't ask me where I got this idea) that bind (ie.named) looked in
> > /etc/hosts first before going to an upstream DNS server.
>
> This is usually true because of the default ordering in /etc/host.conf
As Chuck explained, this is *not* true. It's the protocol stack or if you'ld
like to say the kernel that either looks in /etc/host.conf or does a DNS query
depending on the order in /etc/host.conf when looking up an IP address.
bind uses the config files in /var/named to lookup an IP address for a name
(for the domains it is authoritative for, ie your local domain. It will query
antoher DNS server for the lookup of other IP's.)
If you want to set up a name server for a small domain install the caching-
nameserver.noarch.rpm, add an entry for the local domain zone file in
/etc/named.conf and create the zone file for the local domain in /var/named.
Hope this clears things up. If not, reread Chuck's post, he's the only one
who got it all right afaict.
Bye,
Leonard.
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