[YLUG] DNS

[Alex Howells]

On 09/02/2008, Dr P Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes it works by setting the /etc/hosts
> I thought that it would have been obvious to use my router as a local DNS
> since when it gave the IP address it got the right name. In addition,
> I thought that I could even have give a name to my local network.
> The /etc/resolv.conf is set with the nameserver 192.168.0.1
> So why, it does not work ?

Because your router isn't a DNS server (usually), its just a DNS relay
sending the queries to your upstream DNS server at the ISP.