Re: DNS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:04:30 +0100 (BST)


> I wonder, to get DNS working, is it that nessesary to to have on-line
> connection all the time? look, when my internet connection down, and i

Pretty much yes.

> want to nslookup my host.. i get such error:
> BlackStar:~$ nslookup blackstar.com
> Server: blackstar.com
> Address: 194.135.207.21
>
> *** blackstar.com can't find blackstar.com: No response from server
> BlackStar:~$
> maybe i just missconfigured something?

Not really. You can get normally sensible responses by putting your own
systems in /etc/hosts and setting /etc/hosts.conf to

order hosts,bind
multi on