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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:37:39 -0500
From:      "Trevor S. Cornpropst" <tcornpropst@cox.net>
To:        "DJ Boris" <dj_boris@mail.ru>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how can I stop named to dial out at startup
Message-ID:  <200303161737.39306.tcornpropst@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <001801c2ebf8$fd243320$f4cd07c4@d>
References:  <001f01c2ebc5$b67c7690$85cd07c4@d> <200303161441.47888.tcornpropst@cox.net> <001801c2ebf8$fd243320$f4cd07c4@d>

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On Sunday 16 March 2003 15:16, DJ Boris wrote:
> :)) down in South Africa it is still very expensive to have broadband,
>
> although it is cheaper in the long run but the installation costs are
> horrible and a lot of businesses are still reluctant to get it :)) it will
> take sometime.
>
> back to the *problem*
> in hosts I have all my internal machines' IP's and my loopback. all is fine
> I can ping any machine on the LAN and all LAN machines can ping me without
> ppp dialing out. in resolv.conf I have nameservers 127.0.0.1
>
> hm, I am thinking I will just switch off named and tell squid to use the
> ISP's DNS. I don't really need a DNS for a 5 PC LAN even just DNS
> forwarding.
>
> BUT I will try your way as well and let you know what happens.
>

Ok, put the ip address of the host you are running BIND on in /etc/resolv.conf 
instead of 127.0.0.1.

Trevor

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