To
go to www.novell.com to learn more about SUSE, for
example, you would have to remember 130.57.5.25. Why
attempt to remember a set of numbers such as this when
you can remember www.novell.com/_linux? The DNS brings
a level of simplicity into surfing the Web and doing work
with openSUSE. In this chapter we will learn how DNS is
used with openSUSE. Of course, there are ways around
this??”by editing your HOSTS file, for example, to make the
lack of DNS bearable by adding a local DNS database to
your personal system??”but for the most part, if you don??™t
want to update this file each time you want to use DNS,
make certain you implement a DNS server in your enterprise
so that you can remember www.novell.com, instead of
130.57.5.25.
In Chapter 12, ???Connecting to the Internet,??? you learned
how to connect to the Internet. In Chapter 25, ???Setting Up
Networks and Samba,??? you learned about TCP/IP fundamentals.
In this chapter, you will build on the concepts of
the Internet and TCP/IP and learn about the DNS, how it is
configured on your openSUSE system, and how to modify
it if needed.
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