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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Jack W Doyle <n9ogk@juno.com>
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Subject: Re: Aaarrgghh!!! This fscking hostname/domain setup...
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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jack W Doyle wrote:
> And in /etc/sysconfig:
> 
> hostname="rhyolite.org"
> defaultdomainname="rhyolite.org"

Change defaultdomainname to "NO" (unless you happen to be running NIS on this)

> 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.

In /etc/host.conf you need to have hosts before bind for a part time
connection.  And if you are not running a nameserver your resolv.conf
shouldn't say you're running a nameserver :)  Make it

domain rhyolite.org
nameserver 123.123.123.1		# your ISPs name server 1
nameserver 123.123.123.2		# your ISPs name server 2

> 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

???

Just curious where you saw this?

Try leaving telnet out of it
Server: rhyolite.org
Address: 0.0.0.0

>rhyolite

and you might get an answer :)

Dan
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