hostname on a non-NIS machine

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Apr 27 21:27:06 UTC 2000


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <6EB92C6B088BD311A42F00902785F3F66CD672 at kidsny1.mtvnodn.com>,
> Jangalwa, Raj <Raj.Jangalwa at nickonline.com> wrote:
> >a) What does the "forwarders" mean in /etc/named.conf file??  I know its for
> >"forwarder-only" servers, but is it just for the servers who forwards the
> >resolvers quesries to the machine specified in them?? or am i missing
> >something.
>
> It tells that name server that whenever it doesn't have the answer to a
> query in its memory, it should forward it to the specified server instead
> of trying to find the answer itself (by working its way down from the root
> servers).  Usually this is used on nameservers that are behind a firewall
> that's blocking them from querying other servers on the Internet.
>
> >b) I am not running NIS on this box (duh...) does it make sense to keep my
> >hostname as "machinename.domainname.com" or should it be just "machinename".
> >I mean when i type 'hostname', should it say "machinename.domainname.com" or
> >just "machinename". Will this things effect DNS or its quesries in any
> >way???
>
> We have our systems configured to be just the machinename and it works OK.
> It has no effect on the DNS resolver; it gets all its configuration
> information from /etc/resolv.conf.

Just to be nitpicky, I'll point out that Solaris will form a searchlist from your
"NIS domain" if you don't have any "domain" or "search" directives in
/etc/resolv.conf. So that's at least one source of configuration information that
particular resolver may use in addition to the contents of /etc/resolv.conf...


- Kevin





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