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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 08:49:20 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: johnp@lodgenet.com
Subject: Re: DNS & Sendmail
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In-Reply-To: <199704010420.WAA00706@knight.trosoft.com>; from John Prince on Mar 31, 1997 22:20:59 -0600
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As John Prince wrote:

> I just updated to 2.2.1-RELEASE, and upon bootup sendmail hangs..
> I am running a cache only name server on a local net, ppp on-demand for
> external stuff... 
> When I kill named, I can start sendmail.
> 
> I also noticed I can no longer 'telnet 0' 

I've also noticed this.

> --- START OF named.boot ---
> named.boot
> directory /etc/namedb
> 
> ; type     domain               source host/file          backup file
> 
> cache      .                    named.root
> primary    trosoft.com.         named.hosts
> ___ END OF named.boot ___

If this is really your named.boot file, it's no surprise: it misses
the reverse zone (although you've been posting the zone file for it
below).

If it still fails, start named with tracing enabled, and examine the
trace file.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)