On Tue, 04 Nov 2014, Joe Schweier wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 RW> Yes, there is life out here :)

 JS> I am just trying to figure out how to get my os/2 VM to reconize a
 JS> DNS 

that would have been done when you set up the NIC with the tcp/ip
protocol... aside from that, you might be able to get it to work by editing

  c:\mptn\etc\resolv  and  c:\mptn\etc\resolv2

IIRC, resolv is for the DOS side and may not exist... it doesn't on my eCS
but it did on my warp3... resolv2 is for the OS/2 side...

mine has only two lines in it... the first is for my internal domain
extension... this must not collide with any public ones... it is only your
internal top level domain... the second line is the one defining the
nameserver... i use only one because my perimeter firewall handles all that
so all my machine look only to my perimeter firewall's internal address for
their DNS lookups... i think there can be more than one nameserver line,
each with a different IP address... the top one is the main one used... the
other(s) only if/when the top one fails...


eg resolv2:
===== snip =====
domain local
nameserver 192.168.0.1
===== snip =====


with the above, i could use wrkstn1 or wrkstn1.local to access the internal
workstation flying the host name of wrkstn1... the ".local" part
comes from the domain line... the dns server is on 192.168.0.1... in my
case, that's my perimeter firewall... it might be your modem or router or
whatever you are using...

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