Unregistered local domain yet internet access?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Jun 23 17:54:38 UTC 1999


In article <37704B53.B47D3C25 at mediaone.net>,
Michael C. Cambria <cambria at mediaone.net> wrote:
>My cable provider will not let me register a domain name (at least not
>yet.)  Is it possible to use an unregistered domain for internal
>connections (e.g. local web access, inter LAN email) yet also allow
>systems on the LAN go to the cable DNS server for non-local names?
>(Preferably running BIND on one machine)

Why do you need to go to the cable DNS server?  If you run BIND on your
machine it can go to the root DNS servers all by itself.  But if you really
want to go to the cable DNS server, use the "forwarders" option in your
named configuration.

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