Re: DNS problem
Dennis Dai wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a debian box connecting to our intranet which has an DNS server.
> I also have a modem that I can dial to my ISP to browse the Internet.
> So, I have to have 2 entries in /etc/resolv.conf, one for intranet and
> the other for my ISP.
>
> The problem is that whenever I connect to my ISP, I have to put the DNS
> entry of my ISP in /etc/resolv.conf on top of my intranet one, or I
> can't browse the Internet, while at the mean time I can't have access to
> the intranet 'cause it will always look onto my ISP's DNS server, which
> is obviously not right. Well I can manually change the entry in
> /etc/resolv.conf each time I need to access the different net, but...is
> there a better way to do that?
>
> So what I want is, when I try to access Internet, it will look into my
> ISP's DNS server, and when I want to connect to intranet, it will look
> into intranet DNS server. Is it possible? BTW, My Windows box doesn't
> have this kind of problem, don't know how M$ deal with it.
Sure it's possible. You should be able to include both servers in
/etc/resolv.conf and be able to use both at the same time. You should list your
intranet DNS server first in the file. Have you tried this?
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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