From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 11:36:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09872 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.clara.net (root@hermes.clara.net [195.8.69.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09767 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew@federal.co.uk) Received: from federal.co.uk (du-1551.claranet.co.uk [195.8.78.116]) by hermes.clara.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00533 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:36:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35535017.FA3D9479@federal.co.uk> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 19:33:59 +0100 From: Matthew Sharlot Organization: Federal Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hmm! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have recently set up my own name server and have a couple of queries. Firstly, since having set up the ns, I cannot get communicator 4.05 to run properly unless I have first established a PPP connection. What happens is communicator seems to hang and I cannot even kill the process. I also get a message /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument. Any suggestions? I know it isn't a big problem, but it means that I have to be online all the time I'm writing e-mails which isn't very cost effective. Secondly, I assume that having set up the ns there must be a local cache of addresses somewhere, to save having to look up the same addresses again and again. Any idea where this is and whether it is readable or not? I really just want to see that what I have set up is working correctly. I have deleted /etc/resolv.conf to make sure that I'm not using my ISP's name servers and everything seems to work O.K. I just really want a final bit of reassurance. Thanks in advance Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message