From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 17:12:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27813 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27794; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA27072; Fri, 2 May 1997 00:11:14 GMT Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Terry Lambert cc: Robert Shady , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem In-Reply-To: <199705012231.PAA07346@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > Here's an 'nslookup' on your stuff: > > | > set q=any > | > 11.2.125.199.in-addr.arpa. > | Server: ns.lambert.org > | Address: 198.17.250.50 > | > | 11.2.125.199.in-addr.arpa name = webserver.id.net > | 2.125.199.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.id.net > | 2.125.199.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.id.net > | ns1.id.net internet address = 199.125.1.1 > | ns2.id.net internet address = 199.125.1.2 > > Offhand, I'd say that this was entirely too much stuff to be returned > for an RARP entry. I'd expect something like a single line of: Stick to file systems Terry, or was this supposed to be tongue in cheek? If not, you set query to any so it gave you that, set it to ptr if all you want is the name. > Probably the lack of a "cannonical name" (CNAME) record is why it's > failing to find the cannonical name. You probably have the numeric > value listed multiple times instead of using alias (A) records, if > I had to guess. I don't see any smileys here !?!? Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82