Basic DNS setup for MacOS X

[Kevin Darcy]

Jim Reid wrote:

>     George> We currently are running an Irix DNS server.  Our resolv.conf
>     George> on the Irix and Sun clients is very simple:
>
>     George> search twill.see.com
>     George> nameserver zippy.twill.see.com
>
> This is definitely broken. How can the resolver figure out where to
> send its DNS queries? Well with a hostname instead of an IP address
> after the nameserver directive a resolver would presumably need to
> lookup that name in the DNS. But how could it figure out where to send
> the DNS query to lookup that name?

My only guesses are:

1) That "zippy.twill.see.com" is resolvable through some other naming
service (NIS?) and the resolver is smart enough to use that one to resolve
the name of the nameserver to an IP address

2) That the resolver is silently rejecting the "nameserver" directive, using
0.0.0.0 as the nameserver address, and there happens to be a caching
nameserver running on the client.


- Kevin