From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 10:10: 2 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 AAF6114BE7 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:09:59 -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 AA029304074; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:07:54 -0400 Message-Id: <199908131707.AA029304074@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Rich Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:35:41 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:07:54 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This isn't strictly a FreeBSD question, but I'm hoping someone here can >help me out. > >I'm running >FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 10 19:12:57 PST 1999 >and I also get the problem on >FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE (SPIDER) #0: Thu Oct 8 14:30:19 PDT 1998 > >I am unable to ping cbca.micromedia.on.ca > >(I get 'ping: cannot resolve cbca.micromedia.on.ca: Unknown host') > >although I can use nslookup with ns 199.60.118.2 to get: > >Name: cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca >Address: 204.187.104.128 >Aliases: cbca.micromedia.on.ca, cbca_prod.micromedia.on.ca > >I CAN ping cbca-prod.micromedia.on.ca > >I realize the _ in cbca_prod not recommended, but should the existence of >an alternate incorrect alias cause the resolver to fail? The site in >question already changed the name from cbca_prod to cbca-prod at my >request, and also added the extra alias, cbca_prod. But the old alias is still pointing to cbca_prod, which is now an alias. Wo if the underscore (_) was giving you problems before, then it still will. Ask them to point the cbca alias at cbca-prod and see if that clears up your problem. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message