[luau] dns question?

[R Scott Belford]

Excellent.  Thanks for the response.  I'll try it in a bit and post how 
it worked.

scott


On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:56  AM, yuser wrote:

> 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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