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| From | Bill McCormick <wpmccormick@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | Re: bind issues |
| Date | 2012-12-11 13:34 -0600 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ka81rt$gbt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <ka5q7l$7t3$1@dont-email.me> <ka5u68$1un2$1@saria.nerim.net> <l1gdc8l9opckjqicfv61a9me3pjivd1nbk@4ax.com> |
On 12/10/2012 11:11 PM, Grant wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:19:15 +0100, Pascal Hambourg<boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Bill McCormick a écrit : >>> I having some bind issues, it looks like some things work but not >>> others. I also need to have bind resolve entries from /etc/hosts, but >>> that's not working either. >> >> BIND does only DNS and does not care about /etc/hosts. This file is used >> by the local resolver library. It is not DNS. >> >>> root@sam:~# host ltx1 >>> ltx1.hipower.service.fiberio.local has address 172.16.122.211 >>> >>> but ... >>> >>> root@sam:~# dig ltx1 >> [...] >>> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >>> ;ltx1. IN A >> >> Well, it looks like host appends the domain from the "domain" or >> "search" options in /etc/resolv.conf before sending the query when the >> name does not look like an FQDN whereas dig does not. Again, this has >> nothing to do with BIND itself. >> >> I do not see any BIND issue here. > > Perhaps OP could look at dnsmasq (caching nameserver)? Not BIND by any > means, but it refers to /etc/hosts before forwarding a query out to Internet. > > Grant. Got dnsmasq up and running. I like it. Lightweight; dhcp built in; reads files of host=ip; exactly what I need.
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bind issues Bill McCormick <wpmccormick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 17:11 -0600
Re: bind issues Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-12-11 01:19 +0100
Re: bind issues Grant <omg@grrr.id.au> - 2012-12-11 16:11 +1100
Re: bind issues Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2012-12-11 09:50 +0000
Re: bind issues Bill McCormick <wpmccormick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 13:34 -0600
Re: bind issues GangGreene <GangGreene@example.com> - 2012-12-10 19:50 -0500
Re: bind issues Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2012-12-11 05:43 +0100
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