Re: DNS Question

["Brandon" <Jodious33@hotmail.com>]

-----Original Message-----
>From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org [mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org]
>On Behalf Of fiaid@quasi-sane.com
>Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 8:35 PM
>To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>Subject: Re: DNS Question

>A couple of questions:

>1)  are you running an internal DNS server?

Yes, caching CentOS

>2)  are all the machines on your network on the same domain name, i.e. 
>pc1.foo.net, pc2.foo.net with the domain being foo.net.


Yes

>3)  if 2 do you have the machine set up to use your domain name as a 
>suffix search?
I believe so, but I'm not certain

>4)  if you are not doing 1, are you using some sort of centralized 
>management for user accounts on these machines?

They are their own workstations, no domain controller (atleast for
authentication, policies, etc)

>5)  if you are using a centralized management system, what are you using?


>6)  what OS's are the machines on this network?


2 running Linux distro's and 2 winblows xp machines

I'm pretty certain that I just need some sort of lookup table for my caching
DNS, but I don't know which file to edit.

>>> This is probably a very simple one, but I'm simply not finding the
answers
>>> required.  This is more of a Network question than a Linux question but
I
>>> figured I would ask the pro's.  My desire is to have internal name
>>> resolution for internal hosts ie. A router which has an ip address of
>>> 10.0.0.20, also has a web interface.  This router could be accessed just
by
>>> typing the word router and DNS would tell the browser the correct ip
>>> address.  I know its possible, I just don't know how to implement it or
>>> where to add the information.  I would prefer doing it at the DNS server
end
>>> instead of multiple hosts files.  Any help will do, even a link to a
how-to.
>>>  
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>  
>>> Brandon
>>> 

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