From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 20 03:34:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19860 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 03:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imap.ncsa.es (imap.ncsa.es [194.179.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19855 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 03:34:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesusr@ncsa.es) Received: from piolin.ncsa.es (piolin.ncsa.es [194.179.50.134]) by imap.ncsa.es (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA23051; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:33:16 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: "Jesus Rodriguez" From: "Jesus Rodriguez" To: "chrw" Cc: Subject: RE: weird resolver problems (fwd) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:38:12 +0100 Message-ID: <01be147a$4117d880$8632b3c2@piolin.ncsa.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I have noticed some strange behaviour on severeal freebsd boxes. It >happens when the box is configured to use a dns server in resolv.conf, >and the route to this dns breaks. This leaves the box crippled with no >inbound or outbound traffic possible. I would atleast think that >services which is not configured to use a reverse lookup or dependent >on dns in some other way, would work. but its not even possible to >telnet off the host, using an ip address. > >perhaps i have overlooked something very simple. (?) Invert the order of lines in /etc/host.conf. By default is bind-hosts. Put hosts-bind. Bye. --------------------------------------------------------- Jesus Rodriguez (jesusr@ncsa.es) Dpto. Tecnico Nexus Comunicaciones, S.A. Telf. 902-466664 --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message