Hi there guru's! :-) I have switched from Suse & Redhat linux to Debian, and have to say that I love it!
I have not learnt so much about Linux until I started with Debian, and I cannot stop - it's great (gotta love apt-get!). Anyway, this message does actually have a point to it. I have a home network consisting of 2 Debian servers, 2 Linux workstations, and 5 Windows workstations .. I currently use dhcp to provide ip addresses to my clients. I am using a Debian box as a dial-up router, and all works well, apart from getting unwanted dial-outs at random intervals when Bind tries to update it records.. My question is two-fold: 1. How can I get Bind to stop requesting updates all the time, so that I can control the dial-outs? 2. Would I gain any benefit to using autodns-dhcp .. some of the dialouts are to resolve internal name.. My internal domain is "wimbledon" .. each machine is named after a Womble (:-) .. orinoco, tomsk, wellington etc. etc. I have Bind set up so that I can issue a: orinoco:/etc/bind# dig orinoco.wimbledon ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> orinoco.wimbledon ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40256 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;orinoco.wimbledon. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: orinoco.wimbledon. 604800 IN A 192.168.0.1 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: wimbledon. 604800 IN NS ns.wimbledon. ;; Query time: 55 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 31 15:39:15 2002 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 68 The returned output is correct .. however, if I issue: orinoco:/etc/bind# dig orinoco ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> orinoco ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 1559 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;orinoco. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 8893 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2002103100 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 31 15:39:48 2002 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 100 It doesn't recognise the name ... my /etc/hosts files looks like this: orinoco:/etc/bind# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 orinoco.wimbledon orinoco 192.168.0.2 router.wimbledon router # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts What am I missing!!! - would running autodns-dhcp solve my problems? Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
