Re: Configuring Diald on gateway

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 > From: "zoqix" <http://www.yahoo.com/~zoqix>
 > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:01:04 +0800
 >
 > Hi Robert,
 > 
 > I tried the following method,
 > 
 > >  > All the local hosts are supposed to be
 > >  > resolved by named but it's still going out to ISP's DNS.
 > >  > I remove the forwarders and make just a local DNS instead of a
 > >  > caching one.
 > >  > Then I can add the ISP's DNS to /etc/resolv.conf.
 > >
 > > No, it should work this way.
 > >
 > > You need to make sure all your local hosts are included in your zone files
 > > for named.  Otherwise, named will try to do look ups for your local hosts by
 > > trying to resolve them through your ISP's DNS server.
 > 
 > It's working alright for a linux client. For windows client, I did what you
 > said and set enable DNS to "0". It's working fine for me too.
 > But when my colleague tried that on a windows laptop, it still dials up.
 > Then what he did is to disable WINS resolution. Then it works for him too.
 > But are we doing the right things?

Are the name servers for the Windows machines set to the named running on
your linux machine?