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Subject: Nameserver install glitch
To: uunet!time.throck.com!jkh (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:31:17 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <14247.839470991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 7, 96 07:23:11 pm
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Jordan wrote:
> Mike Borowiec wrote:
> > Is a nameserver mandatory?
> 
> It is for now. :-(
> 
> It never used to be, but some bug crept in which has now made it a
> mandatory field.  I've looked through the code in question several
> times and can't reproduce any nameserver variable related crashes in
> multiuser mode (and its value is checked for NULL everywhere it's
> used).  It's very strange.  Anyway, I'm certainly going to try and fix
> it but, up to now, have been too busy with other things to set up the
> kind of testing environment I could both reproduce and debug the
> problem with - if I can't reproduce this running multiuser, I have to
> add debugging code for the purpose. :-(
> 
> > Anyway, I'm trying to do a load via NFS, and spec'ed the server like so:
> > 198.102.156.5:/usr/FreeBSD. It shouldn't need a nameserver. What to do?
> 
> Enter a nameserver value then nuke your /etc/resolv.conf when you
> come up.
> 
Done. Works like a champ! Thanks for the quick response (as always ;v).
Regards,
- Mike
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