From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 01:20:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA09191 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 01:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA09185 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 01:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA17786; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:20:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA15909; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 09:51:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970927095138.KZ52868@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 09:51:38 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf References: <199709251052.GAA08043@lakes.dignus.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709251052.GAA08043@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Sep 25, 1997 06:52:45 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Hmmm... my /etc/resolv.conf on the gateway machine > doesn't have my (local) domain name. That is, the gateway machine > is named "ponds.dignus.com", but /etc/resolv.conf has: > > domain vnet.net > nameserver 166.82.1.3 > nameserver 166.82.1.8 > > (which is the domain of my ISP and it's two nameservers.) > > Just to get concrete here, my two machines are called: > ponds.dignus.com (the gateway machine) > lakes.dignus.com (the internal machine) > > Also, one difference is that I do have a hosts.equiv on the gateway (ponds): > > #localhost > #my_very_good_friend.domain > localhost > ponds > ponds.dignus.com > puddles > puddles.dignus.com > rivulet > rivulet.dignus.com > > But, I wouldn't expect that to matter... Some of this apparently does matter. Why don't you start a (cache-only) nameserver on ponds, and see what lakes is asking for? Remember, SIGUSR1 to named increases its debugging level. I just did this. With an /etc/hosts.equiv with non-FQDNs, and an /etc/hosts with non-FQDNs, no requests come from the rlogin server machine. So do you have all the above name combinations in your /etc/hosts? Besides, i don't understand why you aren't using a local nameserver anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)