On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:34:46 -0400, Andy Finnell <andyf@vei.net> wrote:
> > Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Do you have a nameserver running on the NetBSD box? If not, use the ip
> > > addr's that your ISP supplies.
> > 
> > No, I don't have nameserver on the NetBSD box.  And niether the Mac or
> > NetBSD are connected to the internet.  I have a hosts file for the MacOS
                                                    ^^^^^
> > and one for the NetBSD box.  Do I *have* to be connected to the
> > internet?
> 
> No, but if you are not and you are not running nameserver on the
> NetBSD box, you can't use hostnames (unless OT has the equivalent of
> /etc/hosts file).

Believe it or not, it does. It' sort of a cross between a named.* file
and an /etc/hosts file. Here's the one I have in :Preference:hosts

corwin CNAME corwin.home
corwin.home A 192.168.101.1
random CNAME random.home
random.home A 192.168.101.2

You might infer that it would take a 'PTR' entry as well, but it
won't. I got tired of waiting for my telnet client to time out on
reverse-dns, so I finally set up nameserver on "corwin" just for the
local names ("no-forward").

Take care