resolving ipaddress without zone

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Mon May 28 22:03:31 UTC 2001


Matt MacGillivray1 wrote:
> 
> But this will not solve the problem globally.

	Yeah, well the laws of physics are kind of a pain too, but they tend to be
just as inflexible. 

> It means I must go to each
> machine to configure this.  How can I configure it so that the dns does all
> this work for me?
> 
> I've setup the resolv.conf file as follows:
> search delfour.com
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> which works on the server itself, but doesn't work for each individual
> windows workstation.. how can I acheive this?

	The only way you can do this with DNS is to define a zone for each of the
servernames you want them to be able to resolve. This should be ok if your
nameservers are only visible to those on the internal network. It will
_probably_ be ok if those nameservers are available to the world too. 

	Far better to just bite the bullet and configure the workstations. That's
a one-time fix that is guaranteed to work.

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