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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers home network - can you have a primary name server, or only a caching-only name server Post 47680 by Optimus_P on Monday 16th of February 2004 02:04:35 PM
Old 02-16-2004
yes you can set up any machine to be a primary named server.

as far as advantages and disadvantages. i think you should learn what the differance is between the two and answer that question yourself.
 

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avahi-dnsconfd.action

avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)				      System Manager's Manual					  avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)

NAME

       avahi-dnsconfd.action - avahi-dnsconfd action script

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd.action

DESCRIPTION

       avahi-dnsconfd.action  is  the  action  script  that is called whenever a new unicast DNS server is found or removed by avahi-dnsconfd. The
       default script as shipped with avahi patches /etc/resolv.conf to reflect the changed unicast DNS server configuration.

PARAMETERS

       argv[1] Contains the character "+" if the DNS server is new, "-" when it shall be removed from the DNS server list.

       argv[2] The IP address of the DNS server.

       argv[3] Numerical network interface number this DNS server was found on.

       argv[4] Numerical protocol number this DNS server was found on. (usually 2 for IPv4 and 10 for IPv6)

ENVIRONMENT

       AVAHI_INTERFACE Contains the textual interface name the corresponds with argv[3]. (e.g. "eth0")

       AVAHI_INTERFACE_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS servers that avahi-dnsconfd found on the interface  $AVAHI_INTERFACE,  separated	by
       spaces.

       AVAHI_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS server that avahi-dnsconfd found on all interfaces, separated by spaces.

AUTHORS

       The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

SEE ALSO

       avahi-dnsconfd(8), avahi-daemon(8)

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

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