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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!sonnet!labrys From: chris@labrys.sonnet.co.uk (Chris Harper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS set-up in FreeBSD Date: Sat, 04 Nov 95 04:08:37 GMT Organization: Subscriber to Sonnet Internet Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <47e79i$1sg@prospero.sonnet.co.uk> References: <46n1q0$1h7@dns.enter.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: labrys.sonnet.co.uk X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #2 dh@enter.net (Daniel Hauer) wrote: >Any one out there set up local DNS in freebsd 2.10.5? how is it done? >I have a local network with 2 machines, one is windoze 95 and the >other freebsd/win95/win3.1. when I have freebsd booted, I would like >DNS, so I can telnet by name to the other machine running freebsd. >I can telnet by IP address, but not by name, anyone have a sample >named.boot file for me or is it something else I am missing? I can >ping the windoze machine by name from the freebsd, but can't ping the >freebsd from the windoze machine, which leads me to believe there is >no real dns happening....... >Thank you for any replies.... > dan hauer > dh@enter.net > > It strikes me that you are trying to crack a walnot with a sledgehammer, and missing to boot. To achieve what you are after I would set up a hosts file containing entries for all machines and hold a copy it to each.. That should be sufficient, or have I missed something. regards Chris Harper