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[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp
>>> from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts.
>> No, they wont. Ever. The hosts file is private to the machine having it.
>>
>> Define it in bind files instead.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>        Carlos E. R.
> 
> Yes, but WHERE is this defined in bind, Carlos.
> 
> Not being a bind wizard, I was asking specifically how I might
> add a name such as "securitycam" to bind so that windows
> users can just key that into their web browser without having
> to know the IP of said camera.

Perfect opportunity for you to buy the O'Reilly BIND & DNS book and set up dns
services on linux for your lan. You won't regret the experience.

Joe
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