I am on SuSE 5.2 and I need to configure name service to establish a couple of local host names on my network even though I have only a dial-up connection to the Internet. The SuSE bind package requires almost no configuration. Basically you just tell YaST that you want it, hang 127.0.0.1 in the IP address and your system host name, take the automatic SuSEConfig and start using it. But now my local host names--how closely can I follow the DNS HOWTO? I see a couple of immediate variances: no /etc/named.conf and /var/named/root.cache appears to serve the same function as /var/named/root.hints. What I need is actually *just one* additional local host name so Netscape will see it and not go looking for it on the Internet. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks, Dwight - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e