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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and Nameservers / Need advice Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:03:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <59mvik$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32B1DC3C.1A2A@videotron.ca> <32B30B4E.12DF@videotron.ca> <58vjhk$lnr@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33060 crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote: > In a similar vein, must all name servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf > be known to all ppp servers? Suppose that one sometimes uses ppp > (user process) to connect to either of two different machines. Is > there a problem is nameserver lines for both of those networks > appear simultaneously in the file? It would be the best for you to setup a local nameserver, and add both IP addresses as forwarders. You benefit from the caching abilities of your local nameserver. Setting up a slave name server is fairly trivial: cd /etc/namedb sh make-localhost cat > named.boot <<-EOF directory /etc/namedb primary 127.in-addr.arpa localhost.rev forwarders xxx yyy slave EOF Replace `xxx' and `yyy' above with your forwarding nameservers' IP addresses. Edit /etc/sysconfig to start up named by default. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)