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MACS resolving names

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by windlej

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I have a few Macs (G4s). My background is mostly PC. I need to have the macs resolve some intranet sites. I put our DNS server addresses and a hosts file but I can not resolve names. Can anyone tell me how MACs resolve names. How I can setup the DNS server to resolve names for the MACs. and how to setup a hosts file with several entries.

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by wanabedrsean

You can put a host file on a mac but they dont have a layout like pc host files do You need to put a fully qualified domain name first and then the ip address it needs to look like this:
www.sean.com A 10.10.10.34

the a stands for address of remote system and needs to be there

by wanabedrsean

there also needs to be tabs between the host the a and the ip
I will email you the open transport document if I can find it.

by wanabedrsean

I had to get this working for an advertiseing agency we never did get their dns to work for adresses on the inside of the firewall even though the pc's worked fine

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