Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question.
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:58:18
Message-Id: 20070304115255.3bd61aee@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question. by Michal 'vorner' Vaner
1 On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:16:47 +0100
2 "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <vorner@×××.cz> wrote:
3
4 > The [ X ] is a machine, ---- is a network and those C? are names of
5 > the machine on the net. Now, ping C1 on the middle machine. Should it
6 > ping itself on the right interface or look for the left computer? You
7 > should at last have something like:
8 >
9 > [ Name1 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name2 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name3 ]
10
11 /etc/resolv.conf has a search line in which you can set up domains to
12 automatically append to hostnames that aren't fully qualified. If the
13 subnets had different subdomain names, the order/presence/absence in
14 resolv.conf would determin which C? was reached from Name2
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Re: [gentoo-user] A DNS question. Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>