Question on DNS setup change not working.

[Jatin K]

On Saturday 03 September 2011 12:26 AM, Michael D. Setzer II 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.
>
> In the past, I had done this same thing for local services I have.
> redhatgcc.dyndns.org has a public ip of 202.128.73.24, but on the
> inside it has the private ip of 192.168.50.41. So, the hosts file has
> the link between the 192.168.50.41 and the
> redhatgcc.dyndns.org,  and it reports that.

You need to setup a DNS server or add a new zone to existing DNS server 
for local network.
BTW /etc/hosts is not part of DNS , thats why you cannot see the effects 
during dig <name> command

Warm Regards

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