Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:19:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: leafnode+, DNS, and a dialup connection using i4b Message-ID: <200001231219.MAA00978@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> of "23 Jan 2000 12:06:00 %2B0100." <0vu2k51207.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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> [Posted this to -questions before but to no avail. Does not look like
> there are active i4b users over there.]
I think a lot of people have run away from -questions due to the
signal:noise ratio.
> Ok, thanks to i4b, my isdn connection is more or less up and running
> and I do my best to ignore the "File exists" error by ifconfig. But I
> still don't get the whole dilup setup done correctly. The world was
> just so much easier with a steady internet connection. :->
ppp(8) won't produce ``file exists'' message :*]
> How does one setup a DNS lookup? I am planning to use leafnode+ to
> fetch news for me. Leafnode+ is started via inetd with the following
> entry in /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> ------- cut -------
> nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/local/sbin/leafnode leafnode
> ------- cut -------
>
> Nothing special, I would say. Whenever I do a 'telnet localhost nntp',
> I get the following syslog message:
>
> ------- cut -------
> Jan 20 20:55:07 arthur leafnode[671]: unable to parse server (server news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de has no =)
> ------- cut -------
I don't know how much like leafnode leafnode+ is, but with leafnode
you need ``server = news.whatever''. It sounds like you left out the
``=''.
> Ok, so I put the ip address of this news.cs machine in /etc/hosts:
>
> ------- cut -------
> 141.44.21.70 loriot loriot.cs.uni-magdeburg.de news news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
> ------- cut -------
>
> /etc/host.conf is of course
>
> ------- cut -------
> hosts
> bind
> ------- cut -------
>
> The above error message stays the same. That's why I thought having a
> little own named would be a nice idea.
>
> That's the try for /etc/resolv.conf:
>
> ------- cut -------
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 141.44.1.2
> nameserver 141.44.1.1
> domain uni-magdeburg.de
> ------- cut -------
I wouldn't tend to mix 127.0.0.1 and other nameservers here. Use
forwarders in your named.conf instead.
[.....]
> Roland
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