Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:02:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf Message-ID: <19970927100228.BQ43995@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709251058.GAA08060@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Sep 25, 1997 06:58:10 -0400 References: <199709251058.GAA08060@lakes.dignus.com>
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> I originally reported this problem in version 2.1.5 of FreeBSD, on
> Aug. 16th, 1996. The subject of that message was
>
> "Nameserver and 'rlogin' in 2.1.5."
>
> it should be in the freebsd-hackers mail archives. But, at that time
> I thought it was a totally different problem and let it languish.
> Since it didn't get resolved; particularly when my network situation
> changed, I brought it back up...
I still blame your setup. As well as Sean, i can't reproduce the
problem in a way where i could not resolve it using /etc/hosts. One
particular thing i've just noticed (by tracing the nameserver's
requests, as mentioned in the other mail) was... but first the setup,
so you can match it your situation:
uncle.heep.sax.de uriah.heep.sax.de
| | |
+--------------------+ +--- . . . dialup link to
Ethernet 192.168.0 Internet
rlogin from uriah to uncle worked well, and generated no DNS queries.
rlogin back from uncle to uriah caused one query from uriah for
`localhost.heep.sax.de', which was not resolved by placing this name
in /etc/hosts on uriah. I then found that i had to replace the line
127.1 localhost localhost.heep.sax.de
by
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.heep.sax.de
and *bingo* it worked. Now, we've been discussing this before...
(Ok, now fix the broken setup again to use DNS for everything. Heck,
why should i rely on outdated /etc/hosts files? :-)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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