From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 16: 9:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8C114DB1 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA17793; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:07:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Cliff Addy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Cliff Addy wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > I don't doubt your zone files are the same, but I do suspect this > > one isn't getting read. Possibly a typo in your named.conf. > > 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. 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? No it doesn't. My zone files and named.conf are in /usr/local/lib/named and everything works fine. You can also give the hints file any name you want. named.conf controls all. You _do_ need to tell named where to find named.conf if it's not in /etc/namedb by using the -b /path/to/named.conf flag. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message