From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 6:47:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D96C814DEF for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:46:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 18072 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1999 14:46:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (195.166.140.44) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 15 Nov 1999 14:46:39 -0000 Message-ID: <38301CD0.E9F80D8F@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:46:40 +0000 From: Richard Morte X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kennett Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: DNS and resolv.conf References: <199911141706.BAA26155@laurasia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael, Thank you for your offer of help. Here is the information you require. Michael Kennett wrote: > I don't know what your problem is exactly, but could you provide the > following information: > > > 1) The output of the 'hostname' command sparky.at.home > 2) The contents of the /etc/hosts file etc/hosts : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # local machines: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.120.1 sparky.at.home sparky 192.168.120.101 rics.at.home rics 192.168.120.102 ians.at.home ians 192.168.120.103 rics2.at.home rics2 # Netscape and Outlook sometimes want to know about mail servers and newsgroups at the ISP: 195.166.128.81 mail.force9.net 195.166.128.82 mail.force9.net 195.166.128.37 news.force9.net usenet.force9.net usenet.plus.net.uk 195.166.128.38 news.force9.net usenet.force9.net usenet.plus.net.uk # Netscape (4.06-4.7) does a DNS lookup at boot time for the following: 198.41.0.6 internic.net 195.44.254.22 home6.netscape.com home21.netscape.com wwwld-uk.netscape.com 207.200.75.200 home.netscape.com 207.200.75.204 messenger.netscape.com # Netscape also needs this for Real Player: 208.147.89.96 hoobajube.real.com 208.147.89.154 rmapup.real.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 3) The contents of the /etc/namedb/named.conf file /etc/namedb/named.conf : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- options { directory "/etc/namedb"; }; logging { channel my_syslog { syslog daemon; severity info; }; channel my_queries { file "/var/log/named/named-queries.log" versions 4 size 100k; severity dynamic; print-time yes; print-category yes; print-severity yes; }; channel my_stats { file "/var/log/named/named-stats.log" versions 3 size 10k; severity debug 1; print-time yes; }; channel my_logs { file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 3 size 200k; severity debug 1; print-time yes; print-category yes; print-severity yes; }; category default { default_syslog; my_logs;}; category panic { default_syslog; }; category queries { my_queries; }; category statistics { my_stats; }; }; zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" in { type master; file "db.127.0.0"; notify no; }; zone "." in { type hint; file "db.cache"; }; zone "at.home" in { type master; file "db.athome"; notify no; }; zone "120.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" in { type master; file "db.192.168.120"; notify no; }; zone "ispaddr" in { type master; file "db.ispaddr"; notify no; }; zone "0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" in { type master; file "db.10.0.0"; notify no; }; zone "local" in { type master; file "db.local"; notify no; }; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 4) The value of the environment variable HOSTALIASES (if set) Nothing set for this. > 5) Do you have the 'enable dns' command in your ppp.conf file? > (assuming you are using ppp) No. Here's an extract from ppp.conf: ppp.conf : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ############################################################################## # DEFAULT : used by all configurations ############################################################################## default: set device /dev/cuaa1 set speed 115200 disable pred1 deny pred1 disable lqr deny lqr set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" set redial 3 1 set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command ############################################################################## # DEMAND : used for "Dial-on-demand" connectivity # : $ ppp -auto demand (for this machine only) # : $ ppp -auto -alias demand (network/gateway access: all machines) ############################################################################## demand: set server /var/run/internet "" 0177 set authname [deleted out] set authkey [deleted out] set phone "[deleted out]" set timeout 180 set openmode active accept chap allow users ric ian set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add 0 0 HISADDR enable iface-alias ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ppp.linkup : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #MYADDR: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR demand: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ppp.linkdown : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MYADDR: delete ALL set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 add 0 0 10.0.0.2 demand: iface clear dynamic-alias-auto: iface clear ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael, you have quite a job on your hands with all this. I do so very much appreciate you generous offer of help. I look forward to hearing from you when time permits. Kind regards, Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message