On 3 Sep 2011 at 7:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: Date sent: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:47:02 +1000 From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Question on DNS setup change not working. Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > On 03Sep2011 04:56, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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, > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > "He deserves death!" > "Deserves it! I daresay he does. And many die that deserve life. Is it in > your power to give it to them? Then do not be so quick to deal out death in > judgement, for even the very wise may not see all ends." > - Gandalf, _The Lord of the Rings_ > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11189934.576302 | EINSTEIN 6468781.769851 ROSETTA 3563786.501816 | ABC 7853564.918328 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
