20 May
2005
20 May
'05
2:43 p.m.
Chris Green wrote:
So how do you set things up so your nameserver knows a set of short convenient 'alias' names for all the local machines? Don't you need some sort of mechanism akin to /etc/hosts to enable you to give names to things like the two print servers I have?
On your client machines you do this in your /etc/resolv.conf:
search isbd.co.uk
If you're running Windows for your clients, you'd go to Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Right-click NIC -> Double-click TCP/IP settings -> Click Advanced -> DNS -> DNS suffix for this connection (or alternatively you can use the Append these Domain Suffixes (in order).
Regards,
Martyn