Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:38:05 EST From: n9ogk@juno.com (Jack W Doyle) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Aaarrgghh!!! This fscking hostname/domain setup... Message-ID: <19970328.153200.3910.0.N9OGK@juno.com> References: <199703282029.MAA01520@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Ok I got a tiny problem that haunts me at night, because I couldn't find much help anywhere, even after buying the DNS & BIND book. Here's my situation: I am trying to set up my box to be rhyolite.org, which will be 10.0.0.2 as the address for the time being (but want to be able to connect to the Internet part of the time). I set up the system in such a manner that when it looks at /etc/hosts it says: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.rhyolite.org 10.0.0.2 rhyolite rhyolite.org And in /etc/sysconfig: hostname="rhyolite.org" defaultdomainname="rhyolite.org" Now we go on to /etc/resolv.conf: search rhyolite.org nameserver 0.0.0.0 nameserver 10.0.0.2 (and I don't want a nameserver -- just a domain name setup) The /etc/host.conf is set up to look at bind first, then hosts. System bootup shows at lo0 this: lo0:8049<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000 But when I run nslookup with the debug mode on, the result is this: Server: rhyolite.org Address: 0.0.0.0 >set debug >telnet rhyolite ;;res_mkquery(0, telnet.rhyolite.org, 1, 1) recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused *** 0.0.0.0 can't find telnet: No response from server Similar results appear when telnet 10.0.0.2 is tried. What am I doing wrong? DNS & BIND doesn't cover single-machine, part-time Internet-connectivity domain setups that much - only touches upon them, so I am a bit on the stumped side. Jack You know you've been using UNIX enough when: * You remember UNIX commands faster than those for DOS. * You try to configure Win95 the same way you try to configure your X window manager. * Someone asks you what wordproc you use and you reply 'vi' (or your favorite text editor). * You type 'ls -a' instead of 'dir /w' in DOS.
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