10.4 Enabling IP Packets To Be Forwarded

10.5 Changing the Primary Name Server

The presence of the /etc/resolv.conf file indicates to a host that it should go to a name server to resolve a name first. The sample /etc/resolve.conf shows that the primary name server to use is 9.3.1.74:

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver      9.3.1.74
domain  itsc.austin.ibm.com
#

Change the IP address of the nameserver entry in the /etc/resolv.conf file to that of the new domain name entry at address 9.3.1.121:

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver      9.3.1.121
domain  itsc.austin.ibm.com
#

10.6 When a Domain Name Server is Unreachable