Question on DNS setup change not working.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 3 Sep 2011 at 7:47, Cameron Simpson wrote:

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> On 03Sep2011 04:56, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> | Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public 
> | IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the 
> | additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name.
> | restart named and restarted squid, and squid picked up the 
> | change, and would bring up pages using the name. Unfortunately, 
> | dig and other options would still be using the public IP instead.
> | 
> | Tried restarting the machine to see if something might not have 
> | been changed, but it remains the same.
> 
> /etc/hosts is not part of DNS. It is part of the name lookup procedure
> used by gethostbyname(). So: squid is affected by /etc/hosts, but dig
> and named are NOT, and will not be: they are specificly DNS tools.
> 
> My recommendation is to add a special .local zone to your named with
> names host1.local etc with the private addresses. Then add local to the
> _front_ of the search path in /etc/resolv.conf:
> 
>   search local your.normal.domain.here
> 
> Then using the short names should work.
> 

Thanks for the information. At the moment, the system is just 
running a caching nameserver, so will have to look at the process 
to setup the dns. I was under the impression that the resolv.conf 
with hosts bind was also for dns.

> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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