On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:15, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Okay.. NS seems to be correct, But can I ask if you've already > configured BIND or something for the Nameservices? Or are you _only_ > using /etc/hosts? > > /etc/hosts may not necessary be the correct path in the sense that it > will only be used for the _local_ PC name to IP address translation. > IIRC, it should not propagate to other PCs. (if you really want, then it > those entries will have to be replicated to _all_ PCs. I may be wrong) Sorry to reply to myself.. but maybe your needs will be met by looking at dnsmasq quote : Dnsmasq will serve names from the /etc/hosts file on the firewall machine: If the names of local machines are there, then they can all be addressed without having to maintain /etc/hosts on each machine. -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 10:40:40 up 1:12, 7 users, load average: 0.20, 0.30, 0.34
