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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!digilab
- From: digilab@world.std.com (BioRad Digilab)
- Subject: Dell issue 2.2 DNS vs. BSD printing
- Message-ID: <BxHHF4.54r@world.std.com>
- Summary: using name server makes BSD remote printing fail -- why?
- Keywords: Dell Unix, DNS, printing
- Sender: dmw@bio-rad.com
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Distribution: na
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:49:52 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- Hello. Dell tells me that I'm a victim of a long-standing generic SVR4 bug,
- and I was wondering if any of you folks out there had figured out a workaround.
-
- Here's the symptom:
-
- 1) Put together a working DNS system on the Dell Unix box. Put
- nameserver 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf, and start up in.named in rc.inet.
- .
-
- 2) Configure BSD-based printing, permitting some remote systems to print
- via printers connected to the Dell.
-
- If you do both of these things, then the BSD-based printing doesn't work.
- The Dell immediately shuts down any attempted connection.
-
- But! If you change the line in the /etc/resolv.conf file to "nonameserver,"
- the BSD print services work!
-
- Any comments? Has anyone got a reasonable workaround, beyond just leaving
- in the nonameserver?
-
- Please send responses by E-mail, and I'll summarize if there's enough
- interest.
-
- - Dave Watt
- dmw@bio-rad.com
-
-