From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 14 15:10:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09936 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09907 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06529; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:10:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980615081009.52376@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:10:09 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Tim Gerchmez Cc: Nik Clayton , FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I did it!! Success! Yes!! References: <3.0.5.32.19980613224241.007ecb30@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980613224241.007ecb30@mx.serv.net> <19980614120205.14122@nothing-going-on.org> <3.0.5.32.19980614141638.007eb320@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980614141638.007eb320@mx.serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 02:16:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 02:16:38PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > As I've discovered today, it's not an easy task to run a named server, > unless I'm going completely in the wrong direction with my hacking > around... I can now ftp from Win95 to the IP address I gave the BSD box > without problems, but can't give it a name (like bsd-box.local.net) and FTP > to that. Apparently the BSD setup HAS to be registered with the InterNIC > and connect to a name server somewhere on the Internet in order to run > named. If not, someone direct me to some resources as to how to do it. > I'm hopelessly confused with how to use BIND - is there another way to run > named aside from BIND for people on an intranet and not connected to the > general Internet at all? If anyone knows, Email me directly, please. Well I decided to answer here because this is mostly about windoze so it would not be well placed in freebsd-questions. I had a FreeBSD machine and two NT machines (NT4 workstation, and NT3.50 on an alpha) networked for a while without using DNS but using hosts files. In FreeBSD it's /etc/hosts and in win there's a file called either host or hosts in the main directory (pathname is different on different flavours). In each case there should be a file there already that shows you what format to use to enter a line for each machine with notepad or similar. After simply listing my machines in these and rebooting I could use their short machine names to connect. I guess this works the same for win95. Can anyone confirm? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message