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From: rg@uunet!unhd (Roger Gonzalez )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: in.named, /etc/resolv.conf
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.023354.13235@uunet!unhd>
Date: 21 Nov 90 02:33:54 GMT
Reply-To: rg@unhd.UUCP (Roger Gonzalez )
Distribution: comp
Organization: Marine Systems Engineering Lab
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I'm having what seems to be an inordinate amount of difficulty getting
nameserver access set up for our Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.1.  I want
to use other machines as nameservers.  I have set up resolv.conf containing
the address of the nameserver, as described in the manual.  It works when
I use the program nslookup.  I'm not sure what to do with named.local,
named.boot, or named.ca.  I understand more or less how to set them up
if *your* machine is the nameserver, but the one sentence describing how
to set it up so that resolv.conf is used was very noninformative.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

-Roger

-- 
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra 
rg@unhd.unh.edu               |  UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory
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