Stupid question about DNS

[Nitin.K.]

hi,
          You can look in to the /etc/resolv.conf
if there is a line containing the nameserver ,if it is
then server listed will be acting as a nameserver for your
queries ,you do not need DNS ,then nameserver will answer your queries,
regards
nitin

Attico Nicola wrote:

> 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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