[Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Joshua N Pritikin<jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> This might get fixed by doing a forwarders for DNS. I have to do this when I
>> use the XS on campus.
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/server-devel@lists.laptop.org/msg02381.html
>
> Added to the end of "Network Configuration":
>
> "If you can only resolve hostnames on the schoolserver but not from other
> computers using the schoolserver as a gateway then you may have to force
> use of your ISP's DNS servers. Add your ISP's nameservers to
> /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders."
>
> Did I describe everything accurately?

Good - even better:

 "add your ISP nameservers to /etc/named-xs.conf.in as forwarders, and then

   cd /etc
   make -f xs-config.make named-xs.conf

 "


m
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