NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/apollo/3415

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From: [e-mail] (David Young -davidy K26E2 x2968)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Nameserver blues
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Date: 1 Sep 92 20:21:46 GMT
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** [e-mail]  (Dieter Menszner) on 1 Sep 92 02:38:37 GMT
** in [Nameserver blues] writes:

Dieter> I am setting up /etc/named on our Apollo ring with partial
Dieter> success:

Dieter> Configuring one machine as the primary nameserver for the ring
Dieter> and as secondary nameserver for another subnet worked at least
Dieter> on that machine.  Other machines on the ring which don't run
Dieter> named are expected to look on the file /etc/resolv.conf for
Dieter> the nameserver machine and ask that for resolving names (I
Dieter> believe).  But this doesn't work for me. I think that e.g. ftp
Dieter> should look in resolv.conf for the nameserver but it always
Dieter> falls back to /etc/hosts. Is ftp and friends broken ?

You didn't mention it, but did you run the nmconfig command?  You must
run '/etc/nmconfig -h hostent_bind' to change a node from looking at
/etc/hosts to using DNS for host name lookups.  See man page for more
info.
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