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|    Glen Herrmannsfeldt to someone    |
|    Re: hostname vs hostname.local    |
|    19 Feb 09 02:09:26    |
      From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu              Barry Margolin wrote:       (snip, someone wrote)       >>>Can I define a domain name for my 'intranet'?              (then I wrote)       >>Run a local nameserver for internal hosts. It will answer       >>for the hosts in knows, and forward others to your ISPs       >>nameserver. (You have to put the ISPs nameserver address       >>in the configuration file.)              > Or leave them out and it will just do the recursive resolution itself.              It has been a while since I did it, so I had to go look.              It is the FORWARDERS that I was remembering.              As I understand it, the local nameserver will cache names       that it sees, and if it doesn't know the name will ask the servers       in FORWARDERS, suggested to be your ISP's servers, and take       advantage of their cache.              Otherwise, yes.              -- glen              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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