resolving local host names

[Steve]

You can either just add the zone for your lan names to your nameserver and
block the outside from querying it, 

or add this line to your resolv.conf

hostresorder local bind

I have seen different systems where the sytanx was different
so do a "man resolv.conf" to make sure its the same. 

What that does is check your /etc/hosts then use your nameserver. 


On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, mark wrote:

> Hello,  I've got a caching only name server running on a box with RH 6.2.
> It correctly resolves external names.  I'd like it to resolve internal names
> by checking the /etc/hosts file.  My /etc/nsswitch.conf file has hosts:
> files dns, yet when I run "nslookup pctech" is doesn't not resolve "pctech"
> although it is listed in the host file.  What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
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