Nameserver Problem

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:14 PM +0930 4/1/07, Tim wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:39 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> Named is working properly, but I'm a bit uncomfortable about not
>> having defined any nameservers to use.  Presumably it's just asking
>> the root nameservers.
>
>Yes, it's acting as a stand-alone name server.  Probably the best way to
>use it, for simplicity's sake.

Certainly it is good enough for the present use.


>> I could hard-code what DHCP would return, but I wonder if there is a
>> way to get that info into named automatically?
>
>I wouldn't bother, nor would I recommend changing named.conf all the
>time.  If you really wanted, you could play with adding forwarders to
>your configuration file, either to always be used for looking up
>external addresses, or for when it can't find an answer by itself.

OK.  Maybe when I understand about forwarders.
-- 
____________________________________________________________________
TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
      '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>