Explanation of dnsd.conf

Rory Vieira rory.vieira at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 15:23:26 UTC 2006


Tito,

On 9/6/06, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:
> On Wednesday 6 September 2006 14:35, Rory Vieira wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Can someone please explain the contents of dnsd.conf?
> > I currently have
> > firewall 192.168.0.1
> >
> > resolv.conf
> > nameserver 127.0.0.1
> >
> > And from the machine, I do 'ping firewall', and it's perfect.
> > But 'ping test' also seems to work and resolves to 192.168.0.1 ?!?
> > Now where did that come from?
> Maybe /etc/hosts?

which contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost

Side note:
I can ping ANYTHING <aka test or testing or whatever I type>
Everything is resolving back to the only ip in dnsd.conf
even if I ping the hostname of the machine itself it returns 192.168.0.1

Thanks,
-- 
Rory Vieira
rory dot vieira at gmail dot com



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