Operation Manual

at all. The dial-up protocol provides the name server address as the connection is made.
The conguration of name server access with openSUSE® is described in Section
“Conguring Hostname and DNS” (page 337). Setting up your own name server is de-
scribed in Chapter 23, The Domain Name System (page 373).
The protocol whois is closely related to DNS. With this program, quickly nd out
who is responsible for any given domain.
NOTE: MDNS and .local Domain Names
The .local top level domain is treated as link-local domain by the resolver.
DNS requests are send as multicast DNS requests instead of normal DNS re-
quests. If you already use the .local domain in your nameserver conguration,
you must switch this option off in /etc/host.conf. For more information,
see the host.conf manual page.
If you want to switch off MDNS during installation, use nomdns=1 as a boot
parameter.
For more information on multicast DNS, see http://www.multicastdns
.org.
21.4 Conguring a Network
Connection with YaST
There are many supported networking types on Linux. Most of them use different device
names and the conguration les are spread over several locations in the le system.
For a detailed overview of the aspects of manual network conguration, see Section 21.6,
“Conguring a Network Connection Manually” (page 351).
During installation on a laptop (where NetworkManager is active by default) YaST
congures all interfaces that have been detected. If NetworkManager is not active, only
the rst interface with link up (with a network cable connected) is automatically con-
gured. Additional hardware can be congured any time on the installed system. The
following sections describe the network conguration for all types of network connec-
tions supported by openSUSE.
328 Reference