From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 23 00:05:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00142 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00132 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA21281 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:06:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA04150 for freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:07:53 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:07:53 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199707230707.JAA04150@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: name resolution doesn't work always in the first place Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I noticed (since I'm running all kinds of -current during the past months) on one machine that e.g. # ftp ftp.freebsd.org ftp: ftp.freebsd.org: Unknown host ftp> quit fails in the first place. Invoking it a second time right after this, it works: # ftp ftp.freebsd.org Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-2.0.39 Sun May 4 19:21:05 PDT 1997) ready. Name (ftp.freebsd.org:kuku): Now I wonder if this is a problem with the nameservers upstream or if it's a FreeBSD problem. /etc/host.conf: # $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $ # Default is to use the nameserver first # If that doesn't work, then try the /etc/hosts file bind hosts # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line nis (yes, I had that nis line enabled but actually don't run NIS on that machine, I will disable the nis line again to see it the problem persists). -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de