From owner-freebsd-net Wed Sep 27 14:58:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF9937B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17953; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:58:41 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:58:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Chris Angell Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Chris Angell wrote: > I have tried everything to get my DNS working right. For some reason telnet > and ftp won't resolve host names, I think because my computer won't do > reverse mapping for DNS. Ping, Traceroute, and other utilities like > nslookup work fine, but I don't think they do reverse mapping. > Yes, it is not doing reverse for those zones. Are the in-addr.arpa zones in your named.conf file? > I have named running on my system, but the problem persists even if I turn > it off and use other name servers, like my ISP's name server. Your /etc/resolv.conf file should be setup to use your local nameserver, not your upstreams. Which means it should look something like this: # cat /etc/resolv.conf domain somedomain.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > I have been struggling with this problem for a while, and it is quite > annoying. I would appreciate all the help I could get on the subject. > If you give more details and send your /etc/namedb/named.conf and your /etc/resolv.conf files, it should be pretty easy to fix. By details, I mean what host(s) your connecting from, which zones you you are doing reverses, slave on, etc. Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message