From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Sep 26 20: 5:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EAF37B432 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:05:14 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Mikko Tyolajarvi , bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: Weird Linux / nameserver interaction Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:05:12 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: emulation@freebsd.org References: <01092608154803.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> <01092608242005.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> <200109261814.f8QIEDi74396@explorer.rsa.com> In-Reply-To: <200109261814.f8QIEDi74396@explorer.rsa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092623051200.00591@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 On Wednesday 26 September 2001 14:14, Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > In local.freebsd.emulation you write: > > >|>I'm running a local nameserver on FreeBSD so that when I have VPN access > >|>up I can get SAS names from the SAS name server but external names from > >|>the RoadRunner 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. > > When I had this (?) problem, it turned out that linux clients needed > an explicit "nameserver 127.0.0.1" line in /etc/resolv.conf, but > FreeBSD clients implicitly default to localhost. After adding that > line, linux clients could do DNS lookups. Geez, I can't believe it was that simple. Thank you very much. That's all it was. This fails for Linux: search unx.sas.com pc.sas.com us.sas.com sas.com 127.0.0.1 But this works: search unx.sas.com pc.sas.com us.sas.com sas.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 It's like the keyword "nameserver" is implicit for FreeBSD but explicitly required for Linux. Thank you very much! > > $.02, > /Mikko -- 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