From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EoBT3-0001v2-HW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:13:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBJ3AhkF007425; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:10:43 GMT Received: from mail.pbp.net (mail.pbp.net [209.237.40.147]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBJ37m2N008933 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:07:48 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-24-23-248-125.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.23.248.125]) by mail.pbp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB59498C7 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:07:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43A6241D.7070205@pbp.net> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:08:13 -0800 From: Jonathan Nichols Organization: pbp.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration References: <1134691742.9139.19.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <43A2E905.9070000@pbp.net> <1134750667.9139.47.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1134750667.9139.47.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 35c4f4e2-cb8b-4048-9a79-ebacc0c1d57b X-Archives-Hash: 66c0a1c6c48f811a3ff0e290e8b152f8 > It's a local setup. I don't even know if my ISP will allow me to run a > public DNS server. My last ISP didn't. This is purely > intra-espersunited.com so that when the cable Internet goes out (which > it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host > they're running on. They don't seem to be smart enough to look > at /etc/hosts. Some people on one of my Linux lists suggested that if I > set up DNS for my network that shouldn't be a problem anymore... > Ah, ok. Yeah, split-horizon DNS does work quite well.. just a bit more to update. I lost your original post, or I'd be more useful. Hrm, did you remember to make your local DNS server the authoritative DNS server for the domain? (in named.conf) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list