Changing primary and secondary DNS without X

[Don Harrop]

Nevermind. :-)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, der.hans wrote:

> Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte sinck@ugive.com so:
> 
> > 
> > /etc/resolv.conf
> > 
> > Format prolly documented someplace.  :-)
> 
> in the resolv.conf man page :). You shouldn't have that installed on the
> firewall and I don't know that others dists have it. An old SuSE and the
> new Mandrake I have here don't :(.
> 
> search firstdomain.com seconddomain.edu
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 192.168.5.13
> 
> search will search the listed domains. You can use "domain
> somedomain.com" if you're only gonna have one, but I don't think it's a
> real performance hit, so suggest using search and forgetting about domain
> :).
> 
> nameserver expects the IP address of a dns server. Normally if you're
> running dns on the box you want 127.0.0.1 as the first nameserver listed.
> For a firewall you might want it to actually run off an internal
> nameserver even though it's running named for external queries ( that's
> how I'm setup at home :).
> 
> You can have multiple nameservers listed as I've shown above.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
>