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- From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM ((jt) John Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: re: Nameserver blues
- Message-ID: <199209010255.AA29998@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 02:55:33 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- > Configuring one machine as the primary nameserver for the ring and as
- > secondary nameserver for another subnet worked at least on that machine.
- > Other machines on the ring which don't run named are expected to
- > look on the file /etc/resolv.conf for the nameserver machine and ask that
- > for resolving names (I believe).
- > 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 ?
- >
- > Another phenomenon:
- > I set up a second Apollo as the secondary nameserver for the ring.
- > It works so long as I am logged in to the Apollo with dm or with crp.
- > If I am logged in via telnet the nameserver is ignored.
- > What is going on here ?
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- I suspect that you are still using the hosts file for ALL name-server lookup.
- In addition to setting up a 'named' process with all the various files, and setting up
- the /etc/resolv.conf file with a domainname and at least one nameserver entry, you must
- invoke '/etc/nmconfig -h hostent_bind' to tell the system to use BIND for host entry
- lookup. You can specify -h hostent_ascii for hosts-file lookup. You can also use
- /etc/nmconfig -l to list the current values. (Since there isn't a name-server for any
- of the other things there (networks, protocols, services), it's an over-engineered
- command. Maybe when SR11.0 comes out, it'll be there.... NOT.
-
- -- jt --
- John Thompson
- Design Services Engineer / Sys-Admin
- Honeywell, SSEC
- Plymouth, MN 55441
- thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
-
- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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