Subj : Re: Hello? To : Steve Quarrella From : William McBrine Date : Wed Nov 01 2000 11:13 am -=> Steve Quarrella wrote to William McBrine <=- SQ> What was kicking my ass on this was that I didn't understand how this SQ> would have played out had I NOT had an internal DNS: I can't believe SQ> I'd have had to have picked up the phone and said "Hey, keeper of the SQ> DNS records, give me an A." You could just put it in /etc/hosts, and make sure that was checked first (in Linux I'd put "order hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf to force that)... Or you could run your own DNS server, and have it answer for the local host, and forward all other requests... YMMV. .... "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" -- Vroomfondel --- MultiMail/Linux v0.38 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .