Re: [PLUG] home dns notes

[aab@drexel.edu]

Jeff, why not have either [a] your hosting site delegate home.purple.com
to your home machines or [b] set yourself up as an authority for it, but
duplicate the external DNS site's records that aren't within your home.

/etc/hosts works, but it can be a nuisance ... while a hybrid DNS config
would be an operating system independent solution (for the clients, that
is  :^)

andrew.

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> The problem is that if I claim authority over purple.com, I can't see
> the outside purple things (www, list). If I claim authority over a
> subdomain, I don't get there, since the lookups are com -->
> purple.com, which doesn't know about home.purple.com subdomain.
> 
> So the solution was to use /etc/hosts to declare all my local
> names. My nsswitch.conf of course says "files dns". Then I declare dns
> authority over 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to get reverse resolution
> working (important for ssh, sshd, and the like--avoiding dns timeouts
> on my lan). And now it appears that all works fine (if I don't poke
> too much with nslookup / dig).
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> 
> 
> 
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