Re: [cobalt-users] nameservers

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Martin wrote:
>
> There was a line in the hosts file indeed. However, when I remove the line,
> and ping ns2.domain.com, it says it can't find the host?
> Also, I noticed that in the resolv.conf file there is a line SEARCH
> DOMAIN.COM and another line NAMESERVER xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. However, DOMAIN.COM
> actually is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Would it be safe to remove that last line? I
> mean, if it searches DOMAIN.COM and can't find an answer, it is no use
> searching xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx either is it? Would it be better to add my
> colocation host's nameserver there?
> Do SEARCH and NAMESERVER mean the same (local/remote DNS lookups)? I read
> some stuff about it, but I'm not sure I understand.
>

It is OK to have your ISP as the second nameserver, although you should
have your secondary. You can have as many as 6 nameserver entries in the
file.

 The search domain.com is used for short names so leave it in there.
"ahort names" On your machine you could have sub domains, then it is only
necessary to querry "sub" the resolver will append domain.com to "sub"

i.e. telnet sub

Gerald
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