Chapter 6. Configuring Hosts

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Now that you or someone else in your organization has set up name servers for your zones, you'll want to configure the hosts on your network to use them. That involves configuring those hosts' resolvers. You should also check files such as hosts.equiv and .rhosts and make any changes dictated by using DNS; you may need to convert some of the host names in these files to domain names. And you may also want to add aliases, both for your users' convenience and to minimize the shock of the conversion to DNS.

This chapter covers these topics and describes configuring the resolver in many common versions of Unix and in Microsoft's Windows 95, NT, and 2000.