From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 11: 2:15 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 93FB914C1E for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:02:02 -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 11bpCT-000MHA-00; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:02:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:01:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Courtney Thomas Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken? In-Reply-To: <38061495.15A9@access1.net> 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, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > I just installed 3.3 and tried ........ > host 212.109.34.132 > on an old 2.2.5 system and got the correct response > however, > I tried the same on the new 3.3 and got...... > host not found > > What do I need to do to properly set up the resolver ? The DNS servers for that in-addr.arpa zone are screwed. I can't get any response. I use classless in-addr.arpa all the time. While "host" may not fully resolve an IP to a name (PTR) for classless in-addr.arpa that doesn't mean the resolver is broken! "host" does not even use gethostbyaddr(). So, there is NOTHING wrong with the resolver. Just some broken DNS servers, and a misunderstanding on what "host" actually does. > Thanks for your time, > > Courtney > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message