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November 9th, 2001, 12:46 PM

MattWil

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DNS on Network

Hi, I'm running freebsd on a small network that is not connected to the outside world. I want to learn about dns and how to use it but it's a computer on the network. Is there anyway to do this with hostnames or with bogus domains? Thanks!

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November 9th, 2001, 04:44 PM

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For learning, you can run authoritative DNS server for your localdomain name with 192.168.0.xx IPs.

Then alter /etc/host.conf file and change the order from:

hosts
bind

to:

bind
hosts

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November 23rd, 2001, 10:07 PM

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Do you know of any tutorials that might be able to help me out with this? I'm not really sure where to start. I've seen tutorials covering dns but would I just make up domain names and stick them in the hosts file pointing to my freebsd machine? Thanks.

November 24th, 2001, 03:44 PM

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Practically, setting up appropriate /etc/hosts file for LAN should do just fine.

>> would I just make up domain names

Yes, make it up, but make sure it's FQDN and not a registered domain. If it's registered and you're trying to reach that site, then you won't be able to.

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