From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jul 5 23:19:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10396 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rgate.ricochet.net (rgate1.ricochet.net [204.179.143.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10380 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boshea@ricochet.net) Received: from atropos.ricochet.net (mg134-023.ricochet.net [204.179.134.23]) by rgate.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28726 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 01:19:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from brian@localhost) by atropos.ricochet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA12386 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian) From: "Brian O'Shea" Message-Id: <199807060624.XAA12386@atropos.ricochet.net> Subject: Re: Strange problem with named as a caching-only name server To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:24:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's the answer to my problem! Thanks. FYI: I am using the real Internet root name servers in my named.root file, and I am using NAT to deal with only having one (dynamic) IP address. -brian Forwarded message from Matthew Smithshaw > > The IP 10.0.0.2 is (rfc 1918) private. I Assume you are _not_ > using the Internet root name servers in your named.root file. > > If you are (and using NAT or such ilk), you will need to also > be authorative for the domain 0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA. > > Had this problem myself where reverse lookup was not yet in > place! > > At 03:59 05/07/1998 -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote: > >Hello and greetings. > > > >I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 with BIND version 8.2 and I am having a little > >difficulty setting up named as a caching-only name server. I can't connect > >to named on my machine when I specify my IP address in /etc/resolv.conf . > >I don't seem to have this problem when I specify the loopback address in > >it's place. I would settle for the loopback address except that I have > >read that this is a bad idea due to a bug in the BIND code (but I had to > >try it anyway, just to see what would happen). > > (a lot of stuff cut out here to keep my response short[er]...) > > > >Any ideas on how I can get this running smoothly? > > > >Thanks in advance, > >-brian > > > > > >p.s. Some other information that might be of use: > > > >I start named with the following command: > >/usr/sbin/named -b /var/namedb/named.boot > > > >/var/namedb/named.boot: > >; named.boot - BIND boot file (caching-only for atropos.Ricochet.NET) > >directory /var/namedb > >cache . named.root > > > > -- > Matthew Smithshaw | ML Associates > M@MLNET.NET | P O Box 16076 > tel:+44-141-951-2229 | Glasgow Scotland > fax:+44-141-951-8877 | G11 7TL > -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message