> I have the following entries in my /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver > domain > search
I assime you know what these entries do... specify you nameserver, domain and also allows you to specify the order the domains are searched. > The bug # is 34263 > > At a moment, I am just confused how everything works, named, bind, > /etc/resolv.conf.... > > Could someone please clarify on this?? Well I thought if you look at nsswitch in the etc directory it tells you the order it tries to resolve the name. Mine simply goes /etc/hosts and queries my locale machine which has named running but does not have any data files. Then it goes out to our universities NS (specified in /etc/resolv.conf) and grabs the address as it should. This is fine, except when I unload named, all resolution is off... that should not be. My problem is not so much that, as I can nslookup names with either library installed... but when I load SLINKS library, every program that is linked back to libc6 (such as smail, telnet, ssh and ftp) do not resolve the name at any cost (even though I can nslookup the name fine). ncftp, which is linked to libc5 works no problem.... Very odd, I will look at the bug report... --Jay Barbee > Jay Barbee wrote: > > > Hummm... > > > > I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but > > only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being > > a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0 > > (mybox) as the name server. > > > > Very odd, but still not my problem. It was link that in Hamm, and I > > believe Bo too. > > > > So if resolve.conf fixes your problem... what do you have in resolve.conf, > > that I do not have? What are the permissions? > > > > I still think it is a bug. Do you have a bug-track number for it? > > > > Thanks for the reply, > > --Jay Barbee > > > > At 3/26/99 10:45 AM +0000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > >I have already raised a bug on that. It is not really a bug though. You can > > >fix the > > >problem > > >by adding a /etc/resolv.conf. Then your dns should work again. > > > > > >What I don't know is: > > > why for earlier libc6 package, we don't need a resolv.conf > > > While for the libc6 in slink, we must have one.... > > > > > >Jay Barbee wrote: > > > > > >> I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and > > >> done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no > > >> errors at all. > > >> > > >> The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package > > >> installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure > > >> > > >> If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have > > >> this > > >> problem. > > >> > > >> I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I > > >> did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else > > >> see > > >> this? > > >> > > >> --Jay Barbee > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > >/dev/null > > > > > >-- > > >____________________________________________________________________________ > > >Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ > > >Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ > > >_ > > >University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ > > >_` | > > >Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ > > >/___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >|___/ > > >_____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ > Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ > University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |___/ > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > >
