Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@unix.guru.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nslookup on Ultrix and Bind 4.9.4 Message-ID: <XFMail.961021120900.mtaylor@cybernet.com> In-Reply-To: <96Oct20.215539pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Thank you! I've been meaning to look into fixing our old old SunOS to get nslookup to work with our name server's bind 4.9.3. It works now that I've put "options fake-iquery" in the named.boot file. Thanks! On 01:55:35 Bill Fenner wrote: >>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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark J. Taylor Network R&D Engineer Cybernet Systems mtaylor@cybernet.com 727 Airport Blvd. PHONE (313) 668-2567 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 FAX (313) 668-8780 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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