Pointing to DNS

[fantasma]

Hello-

One more question- I want to point a test Solaris server to our existing DNS server. What is the command line procedure for telling one box that another box will be resolving its DNS queries?

-Much Thanks

[bytemare]

Just put the name of your dns server in /etc/resolv.conf with this line:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[fantasma]

Hmmm... I don't seem to have BIND installed. There isn't a resolv.conf file on my system. Someone had this box referring to our dns servers before I got ahold of it; how did they pull this off?

-Thanks

[dieselboy]

if there is not a resolv.conf then creat onein /etc

[bytemare]

yup, create /etc/resolv.conf

you don't need bind for dns.

it could be that this server was using yellow pages or something, check in your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure you have:
hosts: files dns

[fantasma]

Thanks everyone. She's up and running now.