Question re: /etc/resolv.conf file for DNS machine

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:03 AM +0000 5/10/01, Joe Decker, Jr. wrote:

>  A quick question about the /etc/resolv.conf file for the machine that is
>  acting as the DNS server: Should the nameserver IP address be the IP of the
>  machine on the network, or 127.0.0.1, or does it even matter?

	If the nameserver in question is authoritative-only and 
non-caching, then this should point at a different machine which 
*does* do caching (and is presumably non-authoritative).

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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