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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to set dns in rhel4 Post 302365010 by pludi on Sunday 25th of October 2009 08:22:48 AM
Old 10-25-2009
The 'search' directive of resolv.conf doesn't specify which servers to search, but what domains to search through. Example: if you specify two search domains
Code:
search bar.com
search foo.bar.com

and do a lookup for the name 'baz', the resolver will look for
  • baz.
  • baz.bar.com.
  • baz.foo.bar.com.

Name servers, where the resolver should query about them, are specified by the 'nameserver' directive, eg
Code:
nameserver 192.168.0.2
nameserver 192.168.0.3

will query 192.168.0.2 first, and, if that's not reachable, 192.168.0.3.

For your server to be able to act as a name server, you'll have to install and configure the appropriate service. One of the most used is BIND, which should be available in the RHEL repositories.

Ref: resolv.conf(5), Wikipedia on BIND, ISC BIND
 

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