Subject: RE: Resolver
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: James T. Nelson <jnelson@wiai.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/20/1999 16:18:28
I have the name servers for my ISP included in my netbsd box's  resolver.  I
route through the Netbsd box to my ISP using ppp, and all seems to work.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From:	netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org] On
Behalf Of Frederick Bruckman
Sent:	Friday, November 19, 1999 12:17 AM
To:	Oliver
Cc:	netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject:	Re: Resolver

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Oliver wrote:

> one question. Is this right: On a gateway I should never include the
> nameservers from my ISP (in file /etc/resolv.conf) but in all other hosts.

Why not? How is the gateway supposed to resolve dns names? Of course,
if the gateway were also a nameserver, then _all_ the hosts should
point to it.

> I hope this will fix my other problems.

What other problems?