nameserver
Configuring a DNS server to query itself
EPKPhoto — 26 July 2007 - 7:13pm
For those of you who don't know, the router and gateway for my home's internal network is a computer running Fedora 7. It also acts as the DNS server for the computers on the network to provide hostname resolution for each of the machines, which keeps me from having to type IP addresses all day long. Up to now, though, I did not have this router computer configured to query its own DNS server, so I still had to use IP addresses when using it. Here is what I did to have the router query its own DNS server.
First, edit the resolv.conf file:
sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf