In reply to Jolly Roger's message of the 07/07/2000 at 23:15 -0500,
>Konstantin Reznitsky told me that you need to have a valid DNS entry of the
>netatalk server for macs to be able to resolve the name they are getting
>from chooser. Is it possible that because I do not have this set up, Mac OS
>is unable to connect via TCP/IP without having the IP?
Necessary, but not sufficient: I have had DNS running here well
before I installed netatalk and it still does it. You also need to be
using a reasonably recent version of the AppleShare client (2.8 and
up?); since you were talking about G3s and G4s, you must be.
>I know next to nothing about setting up valid DNS entries on Linux. I have
>no registered domain, so I am not sure how I can set a valid DNS entry on my
>machine. In Linux config, I set the domain to an arbitrary name. Is this
>not a good idea? What should I do instead? Can someone enlighten me?
It's too big a subject to cover in a mail message; the definitive
reference is "Bind and DNS" by Albitz and Liu aka the "Cricket book",
but there's also a DNS "how-to" that should cover most of what you
need (look in /usr/doc/HOWTO or wherever your distro puts its
documentation).
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