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From: dsc3rjs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Bob Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Help on joining the network
Keywords: win/3b, 3b2/400, TCP/IP, internet
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.160245.16685@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 10 Dec 90 16:02:45 GMT
References: <67472@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: Naval Medical Data Services Center
Lines: 41

In article <67472@unix.cis.pitt.edu> slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C Slimick) writes:
>
>Could someone provide some guidance on how I want to reconfigure the 3b2?

I'll try.

>(By agreement with the owners of the nameservers, we will stay out of the
>nameserver business)
>

By that, I assume that you mean you don't want to "become" a Domain Name
server. You then have several options:

 - Create an /etc/resolv.conf file with the addresses of the name servers
   you wish to _resolve_ to. (This is by far the easiest.)

 - Run a "caching-only" name server. This means you will have all of the 
   functionality of a name server on the 3B2 in question, but that it will
   not service requests from other machines. (Faster, but more complicated
   to implement.)

 If you just want basic name service, and don't mind a little delay on 
 queries, just throw a couple of lines in /etc/resolv.conf. It's very
 easy to configure, and works automagically. Just REMEMBER to delete the
 file if you ever want to run "named" on your 3B2.

	
>The WIN/3B is 3.0.1 (the safer one).
>
>Thanks
>john slimick
>university of pittsburgh at bradford
>bradford pa
>
>slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu


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