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- Path: sparky!uunet!ftpbox!mothost!citi.prds.cdx.mot.com!bush
- From: bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Michael Bush)
- Subject: Re: Nameserver blues
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.193925.4515@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
- Organization: none
- References: <16854EF3D.L58@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:39:25 GMT
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- L58@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Dieter Menszner) writes:
-
- >I am setting up /etc/named on our Apollo ring with partial success:
- >
- >But this doesn't work for me. I think that e.g. ftp should look in
- >resolv.conf for the nameserver but it always falls back to
- >/etc/hosts. Is ftp and friends broken ?
- >
-
- Make sure that you have the nmconfig stub file in the etc/daemons
- directory on all of the nodes which have a resolv.conf file.
- Also make sure that /etc/nmconfig exists on each node. It is this file
- which causes the node to query the nameserver instead of looking in
- /etc/hosts. You can also switch this dynamically, which is good
- if your nameserver goes down and you want people to temporarily
- use the host file: /etc/nmconfig -h hostent_bind tells it to use the
- nameserver and /etc/nmconfig -h hostent_ascii makes it use the host
- file for ftp, telnet, etc.
-
- Mike
- --
- Mike Bush
- Motorola Codex - Mansfield, MA
- bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com
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