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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Domain-Name-Server ?
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:44:06 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960226.75A07C8.124E4@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <410.6624T1090T2990@vip.cybercity.dk>
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- In <410.6624T1090T2990@vip.cybercity.dk>, bipsen@vip.cybercity.dk (Brian Ipsen) wrote:
- > I wonder about this stuff with domain-name servers... Actually, what exactly
- > is happening at these machines ?? A request for an address goes in, and the
- > name goes out - But how is this organized through the net, because more
- > than 1 name-server exists ....
-
- It's a distributed database. Basically, you ask your local nameserver.
- It checks to see if it knows the answer, and returns that if it does.
- If not, it uses the domain name to figure out what server to ask to
- find a server that will know the answer. There are a handfull of
- "root" servers that get asked if you can't find anyone else to ask.
- This is all groslly simplified.
-
- > And is it possible to set my own Amiga up as
- > DNS in a local-area-network ???
-
- There's a simple DNS server for Amigas that runs off a copy of
- /etc/password. It's missing some of the functionality needed to play
- in the real distributed database, but would be fine if you're not
- connected to the internet (and maybe if you are, so long as you use it
- first and then try the real world).
-
- If you want to set up a DNS server for your domains for everyone in
- the world to use, the first step is to install Unix on your Amiga.
-
- <mike
-