[buug] DNS help: tricking my network

[f.johan.beisser]

On 9 Sep 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> Not that I know, with BIND 8.

you can't, in bind 8. not without specifying it a little different.

> You could run a second nameserver only for internal use.
> Or maybe just add the relevant domainnames to your /etc/hosts, and
> configure nsswitch to consult /etc/hosts before DNS.

nsswitch is a linux/solarisism.

in freebsd, you've got /etc/host.conf. in NetBSD/OpenBSD you have a lookup
field in /etc/resolv.conf.

	lookup file bind

for example.

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