From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 7 17:38:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21531 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA21524 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA05697; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:37:57 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA16551; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:07:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970908100756.20253@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:07:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: empey@integral.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS and "local host name" References: <26F3A33E89@integral.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <26F3A33E89@integral.on.ca>; from David Empey on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:30:35PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:30:35PM -0500, David Empey wrote: > Greetings: > > I am getting the following error when I try to make DNS enquiries > from my system: > > Can't find servername for address 127.0.0.1: No response from > server. > > I'm running a cache only DNS and am on the net successfully (I can > ping using IP numbers). You still need an entry for localhost. Try this: 1. Add the following line to /etc/named.boot primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa localhost.reverse 2. Create a file localhost.reverse in the directory specified in your named.boot. Put the following into it: ; Reverse mapping for localhost domain ; ; $Id: localhost.reverse,v 1.1 1997/01/09 14:29:34 grog Exp $ ; 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA DNS.MYFQDN. DNS.MYFQDN. ( 97010901 ; Serial (date, 2 digits version of day) 86400 ; refresh (1 day) 7200 ; retry (2 hours) 604800 ; expire (7 days) 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day) IN NS DNS.MYFQDN. 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS DNS.MYFQDN. 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.MYFQDN Replace MYFQDN with your fully qualified domain name (would appear to be integral.on.ca), and DNS with the name of the system running the name server. Send a sighup to your named, and things should be fine. Greg