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  From: Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>
  To  : Peter McCarthy <mccarthy@mail.austasia.net>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:00:46 +1000 (EST)

Re: [SLUG] Named and httpd

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Peter McCarthy wrote:

> Where is named run from in the init scripts. I am used to using the
> Slackware stuff, but it looks like every thing has moved in Red Hat :) 

To where it should be? :-)

If named is run at all at startup, then there will be a named script in
/etc/rc.d/init.d, and symlinks to it in /etc/rc.d/rc[0-9].d. If you are
expecting to forward DNS over an intermittent link, then the link should
be up when you start named, so if, for example, you have a PPP link, you
should start named in ip-up.

> I want to setup named to run locally but reslove its names from the next
> name server. How do I go about this.  Will I still be able to used my
> 'hosts' file at all ?  Do I need to ? 

There is an rpm in the RedHat contrib directory (and MIRRORS) called
caching-named*.rpm which has config files set up for doing this. There is
a relevant mini-HOWTO as well.

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