As I have said before, the hosts file on each of my Windows computers is
*blank* (with the exception of the loopback entry, of course). I just
checked with Linksys (it wasn't easy talking to someone in India!) and
learned that you may be right about the forwarding of DNS requests to
the ISP (either that or it has something to do with WINS or NetBIOS
handling my hostname lookups). As an alternative, how can I set up BIND?
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:11:07 -0800 (PST)
From: "Steven J. Yellin" <yellin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Re. Re: Re: DNS lookup failure on Linksys router
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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You wrote that your router "does act as DNS for my Windows machines."
But it's possible that your router doesn't have the ability to store
name-IP resolution tables on its own, but instead, as a DHCP client to
Verizon, obtains the IP of the service provider's nameserver, and simply
relays to that IP requests the internal network sends to the router. Did
you actually produce a name resolution table inside the router? Or are
the tables only inside your Windows machines? For example, under
NT/2000/XP, %SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\ETC\HOSTS may contain the
IP/name pairs for phoenix1 and phoenix2, in which case the Windows
NT/2000/XP machine would not need corresponding information inside the
router. But if your router really does have an internal DNS, then your
question "If the router serves as DNS to Windows, why not Linux?" is a
legitimate one for which I don't know the answer.
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