From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 9: 9:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF8714E41 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11bnR2-000JH9-00; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:08:56 -0700 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:08:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Vadim Chekan Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken? In-Reply-To: <3806092B.E419F8D8@gc.lviv.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote: > > > From FreeBSD-3.2 (I checked this on 4 machines) > > > ========================================================= > > > bash-2.03$ host 212.109.34.132 > > > 132.34.109.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA is a nickname for > > > 132.34.109.212.cscd.lviv.ua > > > > IN-ADDR DNS for that block is definitely screwed up, because I can't > > even get an answer from here. > > What do you mean? "host 212.109.34.132" doesn't do any output for you? "Host not found" after a long timeout. Your DNS delegation is probably broken somewhere. > > Also, "host" in 3.2 can find CNAMEs, so it does not follow the CNAME. I > > think it does an ANY search. > > In this case, the "CNAME" has been followed. Probably because "host" > > did a PTR search instead of any ANY search. > > > > Whether "host" follows the CNAME or not is irrelevant. gethostbyname() > > should still do the right thing. > > So this is just strange behavior of 'host'? > If I understund right this is rather bind issue, not FreeBSD so that > I'll move to more appropriate maillist :) Probably not. Isn't "host" a FreeBSD thing? > Vadim Chekan. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message