enable DNS

[Nina Pham]

David Collantes wrote:

> On 6/11/2004 2:50 PM, Nina Pham wrote:
>
>> hi, I tried to ping to yahoo, but it failed with error : unknown host 
>> yahoo.com. I think I didn't enable DNS. But when I restart "named", 
>> it doesn't report any thing. Any idea?
>
>
> You do not need to run DNS to do what you are trying to do, but you 
> need to list a valid (or more than one) DNS on your /etc/resolv.conf, 
> which should contain:
>
> search dnsdomainname.com
> nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>
> Of course, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX are the IP of the DNS you are going to use. 
> Done!
>
> Cheers,
>
I already have that file with correct ipaddresses