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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.
I believe they can only use the dns setup, not your hosts file.
They have no problem resolving names on the internet (which again, is done by the bind in the suse server).
For instance: In the server's /etc/hosts I have this: 192.168.2.200 testmach
And the server can ping testmach by name. But none of the windows machines can, it says unknown (the machine is reachable by IP). This is why I'm wondering if there is some other setting I'm missing in bind somewhere. The server can use your host file. Unless you are using DDNS updates from your dhcpd, it is very easy to edit your zone files via Yast, Network Services, DNS Server, Zone files. I as impressed by this Yast module this time (10.2). Alas, if you edit them this way, it will delete the update-allow line in those zone files and disable ddns, as you can't have both. You could create another zone in Yast I suppose for those addresses. Try out Yast for this, it makes it rather easy. Also, check out the sysconfig variables for some very nicely done include "magic". HTH.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org