Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:55:35 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@unix.guru.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nslookup on Ultrix and Bind 4.9.4 Message-ID: <96Oct20.215539pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Oct 96 14:13:23 PDT." <199610202113.RAA10451@unix.guru.org>
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This is from src/contrib/bind/OPTIONS:
INVQ (origin: U C Berkeley, with #ifdef's by Paul Vixie)
enables "inverse queries", which in all of the internet only one
client ever uses: ancient nslookup. if you build named with INVQ defined,
you get the time-honored behaviour of supporting this whole class of queries
for no real purpose other than to waste a few hundred kilobytes of your
memory and about 3% of named's total CPU time. if you build with INVQ
undefined, old nslookups will not be able to reach your server in their
startup phase, and you will have to use the "server" command after it fails
over to some other server, or use "nslookup - 0" to get in from the shell.
if you need to support old nslookups try "options fake-iquery"
instead of enabling this option.
you probably do not want this.
So, try putting "options fake-iquery" in your named.boot (or build a new
nslookup on your ultrix boxen).
Bill
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