[H-GEN] Is this a DNS configuration problem?

[Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:29, Gavin Unsworth wrote:
>
> But the problem is DNS isn't designed to do what you're asking.

Phooey!


> If you go read some "how does DNS work" documentation you'll
> understand why what you were wanting DNS to do won't work. Um,
> actually you could prolly make it work by adding a galena zone as
> well as a minestar.au zone, but that truly is a kludgy kludge.

Maybe a zone that doesn't have a domain name .... Ah no ... maybe not.

What about installing Samba on all the Linux boxes and let all systems 
use WINS as a fallback for name resolution?  ;-)

I need to look into what a Samba based WINS server can do in terms of 
being a DNS proxy.