Changing primary and secondary DNS without X

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Author: DonHarropdon@nis4u.com
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Subject: Changing primary and secondary DNS without X
Nevermind. :-)

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

> Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte 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
>