[luau] dns question?

[yuser]

c:\windows\hosts

Watch when you save it, some editors will add .TXT to the end and it will
not work.  It can only be "hosts" with no extension.

I do not fully comprehend your scenario below (too early for me) but you can
make your own hosts file and distribute it to all of the machines
(Linux/Windows etc).   They would find each other fine and you would not
need to run any private DNS for that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "R Scott Belford" <sctinc at mac.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:02 AM
Subject: [luau] dns question?


> Does windows have an equivalent of /etc/hosts?  I ask because I have a
> mail server for my lan with a private ip.  My boxes use the internet and
> public dns servers.  I am guessing that the only way that I can send
> mail through the local mail server from a windows box to another lan
> client and be able to use a domain (fantasy, not registered) name is to
> set up a domain server on my lan that resolves my private ip address to
> whatever fantasy domain I choose.  If you made it through that last
> sentence, is this correct?  Is there a way to use fictional domains on a
> private lan using public dns without setting up a private dns?  I know
> that the domains can't be anything registered because the public dns's
> will resolve them to sites unwanted.
>
> scott
>
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