From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 04:41:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA19841 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 04:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA19836 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 04:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24299; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 04:40:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709271140.EAA24299@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <19970927100228.BQ43995@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 27, 97 10:02:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I originally reported this problem in version 2.1.5 of FreeBSD, on > > Aug. 16th, 1996. The subject of that message was > > > > "Nameserver and 'rlogin' in 2.1.5." > > > > it should be in the freebsd-hackers mail archives. But, at that time > > I thought it was a totally different problem and let it languish. > > Since it didn't get resolved; particularly when my network situation > > changed, I brought it back up... > > I still blame your setup. As well as Sean, i can't reproduce the > problem in a way where i could not resolve it using /etc/hosts. One > particular thing i've just noticed (by tracing the nameserver's > requests, as mentioned in the other mail) was... but first the setup, > so you can match it your situation: Of course, you should feel free to suggest to us any soloution which does not require us to run named to implement. And not feel free to suggest running named. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.