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John Andersen wrote:
I've set up a minimal bind installation using yast on 10.2 which seems to do the job quite well for DNS servicing my local network.
Now I want to add a host name, two actually, 1) to resolve to a specific public IP in another city, and one to point to an internal machine on my network.
In the past, putting these in the hosts file of the server running bind would work, but this seems broken in my setup.
The resolution is set up through /etc/nsswitch.conf. If you use "files" in addition to dns, then you should be able to use your hosts file for dns resolution. # Legal entries are: # # compat Use compatibility setup # nisplus Use NIS+ (NIS version 3) # nis Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP # dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service) # files Use the local files # [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far # # For more information, please read the nsswitch.conf.5 manual page. # hosts: files dns networks: files dns -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org