[ale] DNS problems

[Steven A. DuChene]

> 
> Andrew Newton writes ...
> > I've got a DNS problem I was wondering if anybody could help me with.
> > I've got a machine dialing into the net via SLIP and I want named to
> > access know something about the Internet once the connection is established.
> > However, I can't get it to work.  I've turned debugging on named on but
> > I don't know what any of this stuff means.  Can anyone help.
> 
Dave Kennedy (davek at muscle.net) replied:
> Typically your best bet would be to set your /etc/resolv.conf to your 
> provider's DNS server.  You don't even need to bother running named.  
> 
	If you take a look at Olaf Kirch's "Linux Network Administrator's
	Guide" page 97 of the O'Reilly edition he specifically says it is
	a good idea to setup a caching only name server on your end of a
	serial line Internet connection so most name server queries only
	have to go over the serial line once per dialup session.

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