Re: [LI] DNS Setup.

[Subba Rao <subb3@xxxxxxx>]

On  0, "Webmaster : prayagonline.com" <prayag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all !
> 	I was setting up DNS on my machine running Red Hat Linux 6.0
> Actually, i wanted the DNS such that it would lookup and resolve only my
> domain name
> and resolve any other domains through the internet.
> My machine is not always connected to the internet.
> 
> But now, after doing this, i am not able to resolve external domains ...
> eg ping my_machine works
> but not
> ping linux.com
> 
> 
> Details of files i edited ...
> _________________________________________________
> 
> </snip>
> and finally my resolve.conf reads
> search prayagonline.com

search prayagonline.com isp.net work.com

> nameserver 192.168.5.3

nameserver external-dns-server-address

Add your external DNS server to the resolv.conf
Hope that helps.

Subba Rao
subb3@xxxxxxx
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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