Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 03:59:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Strange problem with named as a caching-only name server Message-ID: <199807051059.DAA11210@atropos.ricochet.net>
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Hello and greetings.
I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 with BIND version 8.2 and I am having a little
difficulty setting up named as a caching-only name server. I can't connect
to named on my machine when I specify my IP address in /etc/resolv.conf .
I don't seem to have this problem when I specify the loopback address in
it's place. I would settle for the loopback address except that I have
read that this is a bad idea due to a bug in the BIND code (but I had to
try it anyway, just to see what would happen).
To illustrate, first I tried to connect to named running on my machine,
specifying the server on the command line as 10.0.0.2 (my machine's IP
address):
[atropos:/home/brian]% nslookup - 10.0.0.2
*** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.2: Non-existent host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
Here's my /etc/resolv.conf, just for some background:
; resolv.conf
search ricochet.net ; Search list
nameserver 10.0.0.2 ; Local caching-only name server
nameserver 168.253.48.19 ; Ricochet primary name server
nameserver 198.6.1.1 ; Ricochet secondary name server
Next I ran nslookup in interactive mode without specifying my machine's
IP address as the server. It defaulted to using my ISP's primary name
server (from resolv.conf). Then I set the server to my machine manually.
For some reason this worked:
[atropos:/home/brian]% nslookup -
*** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.2: Non-existent host/domain
Default Server: norad-48.mcdn.net
Address: 168.253.48.19
> server 10.0.0.2
Default Server: [10.0.0.2]
Address: 10.0.0.2
> rs.internic.net
Server: [10.0.0.2]
Address: 10.0.0.2
Name: rs.internic.net
Addresses: 198.41.0.12, 198.41.0.13, 198.41.0.6, 198.41.0.7
198.41.0.8, 198.41.0.9
>
Now with the loopback address in /etc/resolv.conf instead of my IP address:
; resolv.conf
search ricochet.net ; Search list
nameserver 127.0.0.1 ; Local caching-only name server (loopback)
;nameserver 10.0.0.2 ; Local caching-only name server
nameserver 168.253.48.19 ; Ricochet primary name server
nameserver 198.6.1.1 ; Ricochet secondary name server
[atropos:/home/brian]% nslookup -
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
>
Any ideas on how I can get this running smoothly?
Thanks in advance,
-brian
p.s. Some other information that might be of use:
I start named with the following command:
/usr/sbin/named -b /var/namedb/named.boot
/var/namedb/named.boot:
; named.boot - BIND boot file (caching-only for atropos.Ricochet.NET)
directory /var/namedb
cache . named.root
--
Brian O'Shea
boshea@ricochet.net
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