On Sunday 14 August 2005 7:54 pm, Art Fore wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:17 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:59 -0700, Art Fore wrote:
I have been trying to get my server to act as DNS server, however, have no luck. Read a lot of emails etc on the subject, but still no luck.
I have 4 computers, one of which is a server, all using nfs. DHCP server is the router going to the cable modem. Setting up with yast, I have it setup as master for the site. Tried slave, but it asks for the master dns server which will not take a name, only an ip address. The hsd1.ca.comcast.net server will not return ping and comcast says it is a dynamic server so there is no fixed ip address available.
Question: How does the local DNS server get the host names from the network computers?
Resolve.conf is as follows
nameserver 192.168.0.1 search hsd1.ca.comcast.net sha-server.site
The nameserver is the ip address of the gateway and DHCP.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Basically you need to setup your own zones and enter the info necessary for your network. I believe there is a YaST module for that purpose.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
I tried that under the zone editor. It says on the column to the left:
NS Records To add a new name server, enter the name server address and click Add. To remove one of the listed name servers, select it and click Delete.
I enter the the DSCP server IP address 192.168.0.1, and I get:
Error Aa valid domain names consists of components separated by dots. Ench compenent contains letter, digits, and hyphens. A hyphen may no start or end a component and the last component may not begin with a digit.
Now this makes no sense. I asks for the name server address, then will not take it!
Please explain that one?
Are you really really sure you really want to be running a name server? Based on the questions you are asking, I'd say that you do not know enough to be running your own name server. Perhaps it would be better if you told us _why_ you think you need a name server rather than simply using your providers. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)