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RE: LYNX-DEV [Re: your query about DNS]
From: |
Barbara Gillenwater |
Subject: |
RE: LYNX-DEV [Re: your query about DNS] |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:44:42 -0500 |
I have changed the resolv.conf file to list our domain name and the ip
address of the computer which hosts our domain name files. Lynx still
gives a message that it cannot find the host. What else can I try?
Thanks,
Barbara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Henry Eric [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 1997 6:46 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: LYNX-DEV [Re: your query about DNS]
>
> > moved our domain name file to a Windows NT server, the response time
> has
> > increased greatly. The problem is that DNS is now running on a
> different
> > sytem than Lynx is compiled on and lynx cannot find any addresses.
> Is
> > there any way to tell LYNX that the DNS file is at a different
> address?
>
> Lynx has nothing to do with it. The machine Lynx is on needs to know
> where to do its name lookups. On Unix, you'd put something like the
> following in your "/etc/resolv.conf" file (for starters):
> nameserver the-IP-address-of-your-Windows-NT-server.
>
> __Henry