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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:44:33
Message-Id: 2374546.KQ8KR8BX9j@wstn
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally by lee
1 On Wednesday 02 December 2015 20:37:34 lee wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts,
5 > i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a
6 > connection to the internet?
7 >
8 > I don't like it at all that when the internet connection goes out, no
9 > name resolution at all is possible. Since the information about the
10 > local hosts is known to bind from its configuration files, why can't it
11 > just resolve them?
12
13 Have you looked into net-dns/dnsmasq?
14
15 --
16 Rgds
17 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally lee <lee@××××××××.de>