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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:50:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp in auto mode question
Message-ID:  <199506301250.IAA24738@irbs.irbs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506300854.SAA24701@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 30, 95 06:24:30 pm

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Michael Smith writes:
> 
> ED WOLPERT stands accused of saying:
> > network connection is being attempted by the user.  Has anyone seen this?  It does
> > not occur for root, and the .cshrc files are the same as the one created from the
> > adduser command, except the SHELL is changed to tcsh (from csh).  Ideas?
> 
> I've verified that starting tcsh causes a nameserver lookup; as yet, I don't
> know what it is (too lazy I guess 8), but it's got to go 8)
> 
> FWIW, I use hosts-then-bind, and all my local hosts are in the file, 
> so I'm a little puzzled as to _what_ it's resolving.
> 

Named wants to go to the root servers for a reverse lookup even
though the in-addr records are local and named has in-addr authority
for my domain.

irbs.irbs.com.domain > norad.arc.nasa.gov.domain: 509 A? .

Perhaps this is normal for named.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering




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