DNS setup for known external hosts ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7v4m2b$682$1 at soap.pipex.net>,
Marc Redmile-Gordon <marc at carsplus.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I am setting up DNS on SCO 505 unix.  I have all the local hosts entered in
>/etc/named.hosts  & reverse DNS entries for all my local machines in
>named.rev.
>
>When adding DNS entries for known external "dial-out" hosts ( routed via the
>AC congo gateway ) , what do I do ?
>The hosts have ip addresses but no domain.  Do I just leave the domain bit
>blank in named.rev ? - or do I just make no entries in this file ? - I am
>having intermittent problems telnetting to some of these hosts and I beleive
>this is the source of them.

There's no such thing as a hostname that has no domain.  If a name has no
suffix, the domain is the root domain.  But since you're not a root server,
you shouldn't try creating names in the root domain.

You should put these names in your domain.  Resolver software normally
tries to look up names that are entered with no suffix in the local,
default domain first.

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