From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 14:56:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DA91553E for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA022203705; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:55:05 -0400 Message-Id: <199909232155.AA022203705@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Cliff Addy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:36:25 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:55:05 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Actually, I think I may have found it. The new named *insists* that >certain files be located in /etc/namedb, even if named.conf tells it to >get files from somewhere else. That seems hard to believe, but a) you didn't say which files you mean, and b) I haven't tried this, so I won't challenge you on it. >The long pause no longer happens, but it >now cannot look up remote names. Is the "hint" file name no longer >flexible, i.e. does it have to be a specific name? I don't see why it should have to be. My conf file says: zone "." { type hint; file "named.root"; }; So it would seem one could substitute any name here. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message