Stupid question about DNS

[Paul T. Root]

named.conf is for a dns server. Your RedHat must not
have the BIND server installed.

dns-resolver sounds alot like (dns helper) which is
the resolver process for Netscape. Dns works correctly,
because, your machine has an /etc/resolv.conf (and with
Linux hosts.dat) file setup correctly. That file configures
the client side (your machine) to be able to talk to the
right machine.

In a previous message, Attico Nicola said:
> 
> hello everybody,
> I'm running Red Hat 5.2 on the computer in my office
> and I was trying to understand how DNS works exactly.
> So, I was quite surprised when I couldn't see some
> daemon like named with the ps command. I also was not
> able to find binary files and configuration files
> I expected. On another computer, always with Red Hat 5.2
> i saw with ps a process called (dns-resolver) that I
> suppose to be my resolver, but on my PC nothing of that...
> but DNS works correctly. So I suspect I'm doing some
> stupid error. Why I've not something like named.conf?
> Thanks in advance,
> Nicola
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