7 Feb
2008
7 Feb
'08
21:30
On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:19:37 Ken Schneider wrote:
Jim Cunning pecked at the keyboard and wrote: [...]
This seems like your client's name server is misconfigured. Apparently it is only returning names for its local hosts, and not forwarding queries to any upstream name servers. It might be possible to put a caching name server on your laptop, and then have it forward queries to your client's server or your ISP's. See http://www.bind9.net/BIND-FAQ. The example they give isn't quite your situation, but might give you a clue.
Worse case enter their servers in your local /etc/hosts file. ^^^^^^^ Hosts, not just servers--but it won't do any good to put a name server in your /etc/hosts file. You can get to it by name, but it won't resolve host names any differently than by using its IP address.
Jim