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   Message 12,726 of 14,669   
   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   
      
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