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 >