Re: minor DNS problem
[sorry if you get this twice, I had problems sending it out the first
time]
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andrew Spencer wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> Sorry to come back to the list again. Just a little glitch really, but it
> has me stumped... I can't get IP name resolution working properly. (All I
> want to do is resolve IP addresses using an available nameserver.)
>
> I can connect to machines on the local ethernet fine, using numeric IP
> addresses (can't see outside the local domain, due to the firewall, but
> that's another story..). Also, I can connect using name instead of number
> for a couple of machines I put into /etc/hosts by hand.
>
> My /etc/host.conf file says
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
>
> and /etc/resolv.conf says
> search bath.ac.uk
> nameserver 138.38.32.3,138.38.32.46
These are wrong. they should look like this:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
The way they are configured by default doesn't work. It is a known bug,
BTW.
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Igor Grobman igor@vaca.net
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