[H-GEN] Stopping nameserver lookup for local subnet

[Jason Henry Parker]

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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, John Ryland wrote:

> I think you may need to add your localdomain in to the search pattern in
> /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm not 100% on this.
> Run 'man /etc/reolv.conf' to get some more info

(Please trim the post you're replying to; it saves disk, time and space)

1) Adding the local domain would require the orignal poster to have
   a server that knows about that zone somewhere in his nameserver
   statements.
2) There is no /etc/reolv.conf manpage.
3) There is no /etc/resolv.conf manpage, either.  The name of the
   manual page is `resolv.conf'.
4) That manpage isn't really the place to look, as Mark pointed out.

What needs to be done to fix this, IMHO is for the masq box (or the
other, it doesn't really matter much) to be running BIND or some
other DNS server which will be authoritative for the local zone.

Yes, there are only two hosts involved, but most HUMBUG members
have an ever-growing and ever-changing network at home.

This sort of infrastructure gets very useful once one has more than
a few hosts.

jason
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