Setup Internal caching DNS Server

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Nov 17 13:33:13 UTC 2005


Tim wrote:
> Making an assumption that the greatest majority of users are using
> Windows, does their internal networking system (SMB, etc.) use DNS for
> resolution?  I thought it used lmhosts and broadcasts as a fall back,
> usually?

FWIW, if you're using Windows 200x domains, then you can (and probably
should) set up DNS servers for local name resolution.

James.

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