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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:17:48 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" <roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch>
Cc:        questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: named?
Message-ID:  <393FD53C.6AF2C4A2@i-clue.de>
References:  <393FC544.FAAC0C6A@agie.ch>

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"Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have a problem with a small network of PCs:
> whenever trying to telnet/ftp/nfs between hosts
> on the local network the gateaway makes a connection
> to the ISP and doesn't answer the querying host until
> it doesn't make the connection to the ISP. That happen
> even if I give the IP address instead of the name.
>
> I set up this small network as follows:
> - 192.168.1.1 host1
> - 192.168.1.2 host2
> - 192.168.1.3 host3
> - 192.168.1.4 host4
>
> host1 has a dialup connection to the internet via modem
> and is configured as gateway + nat giving the other hosts
> access to the internet.
> host1 also runs named for this small network and also manages
> all names on that network, so that the other hosts' must not
> keep their hosts file up to date. resolv.conf contains as
> the first line 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' so that the local host
> is looked up first. ppp correctly updates resolv.conf.
>
> Probably I miss-configured named , but after seeing
> the same behaviour using the IP address I'm a bit confused.

Have a look at /etc/host.conf on the misbehaving box. Most probably it
says
bind
hosts
instead of the reverse order.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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