From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Sep 26 14:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC17737B417 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:15:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Weird Linux / nameserver interaction Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:15:48 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092608154803.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, here's an odd one . . . I'm running a local nameserver on FreeBSD so that when I have VPN access up I can get internal names from my workplace's name server but external names from my ISP's name server. This works just peachy for serving up names to FreeBSD programs, but when I run Linux Netscape* it can't resolve any names via the name server. That is, if /etc/resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1, then FreeBSD apps find names just fine, but Linux apps to do not. If /etc/resolv.conf points to 24.93.67.64 (my ISP's name server), then both of them resolve external names just fine, but of course cannot resolve names internal to my workplace's network. Since none of the sites that I really need to use Netscape for (mostly java-using sites) are within SAS, I have a reasonably satisfactory workaround by creating a /usr/compat/linux/etc/resolv.conf that points to the 24.93.67.64 nameserver while the "real" resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1, but I still find the behavior rather puzzling. Any ideas? -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message