DNS

[SecondEscapee]

Can some offer some real time input into how I go about setting up DNS on redhat 7?
:(

[Evil Jeff]

There are several ways. The easiest would be to run linuxconf (I think in rh 7 it might be linuxconf-auth) and change the settings under networking>client tasks. I think rh also has the netconf or netconfig scripts. You can also manually input your dns like (using eth0 as an example interface)

ifconfig eth0 255.255.255.255 up

That I think should do it. If I'm wrong, someone let me know.

[optimised]

I am also new to linux and would like to set up my own primary dns server.

I have registered my ns1.domain.com with
net solutions using my ip.
Do I add this to my hosts file.
Right now all thats in there is localhost.
Should I add 205.x.x.x ns1.domain.com to my hosts file to begin with?
Does my server name have to be the same as my hostname ns1.mydomain.com

thkx