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Title: Alternative DNS
Post by: Mizou on November 05, 2002, 06:17:39 AM

Hi,

I am reading up on Alternative DNS and went across to http://support.open-rsc.org/unix/ to get some instructions fon changing the name servers.

To change the DNS, It mentions...  "To do this, find the file that is your current "hints" or "root cache" file. It'll look something like this"
518400  NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.       518400  NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.       518400  NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET  (etc....)

I have tried searching this file, but cannot locate it. Could someone point me in the right directions and is there another way of achieving this under 5.1.2.

Thanks

Mizou

Title: Re: Alternative DNS
Post by: Charlie Brady on November 05, 2002, 05:11:14 PM

Mizou wrote:

> I am reading up on Alternative DNS and went across to
> http://support.open-rsc.org/unix/ to get some instructions
> fon changing the name servers.

Alternative DNS is a *really* bad idea. Don't go there. You'll regret it if you do.

Charlie

Title: Re: Alternative DNS
Post by: Mizou on November 06, 2002, 02:24:44 AM

Hi Charlie,

Re: Alternative DNS is a *really* bad idea
 
Do you mean bad idea for signing up for address or pointing my box to it for resolving dns.

Thanks

Mizou