On 3 Sep 2011 at 7:47, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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From: Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Question on DNS setup change not working.
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> On 03Sep2011 04:56, Michael D. Setzer II <mi...@kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> | Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public
> | IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the
> | additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name.
> | restart named and restarted squid, and squid picked up the
> | change, and would bring up pages using the name. Unfortunately,
> | dig and other options would still be using the public IP instead.
> |
> | Tried restarting the machine to see if something might not have
> | been changed, but it remains the same.
>
> /etc/hosts is not part of DNS. It is part of the name lookup procedure
> used by gethostbyname(). So: squid is affected by /etc/hosts, but dig
> and named are NOT, and will not be: they are specificly DNS tools.
>
> My recommendation is to add a special .local zone to your named with
> names host1.local etc with the private addresses. Then add local to the
> _front_ of the search path in /etc/resolv.conf:
>
> search local your.normal.domain.here
>
> Then using the short names should work.
>
Thanks for the information. At the moment, the system is just
running a caching nameserver, so will have to look at the process
to setup the dns. I was under the impression that the resolv.conf
with hosts bind was also for dns.
> Cheers,
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