[Info-vax] duplicated DNS domain name (was: Re: stupid network tricks)

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

lists at openmailbox.org skrev den 2015-03-09 17:40:
> Hi, ...
>
> How/where should DNS server names be specified?

You do not need the name of the server, the IP address
works just fine. Such as 192.168.1.1 or whatever the IP
is of your home router.

You can of course also point your resolver to a host name,
but then you also have to enter the host in localhosts
of course... ($ TCPIP SET HOST name /ADDRESS=n.n.n.n)

> It appears on UNIX...

Highly irrelevant. This is a (very old) VMS system.


> ...until I pointed BIND at my router (which is anyway not a BIND server
> but does resolve names)

If it resolves host names into IP address, it *is* a name server.

You make it harder for yourself then needed.

- Forget about DHCP.
- Pick a fixed IP adress.
- Enter it in the "inerfaces" part of the config.
- Enter the ip address of your router in the bind client part.
- Do not enter your name server using a host name.


Jan-Erik.