From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 09:14:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03988 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kapmail.com (srv.kapmail.com [206.31.219.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03983 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satya@dspsoft.com) Received: (qmail 12626 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1998 16:17:04 -0000 Received: from simba.dspsoft.com (206.31.219.210) by simba.dspsoft.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 1998 16:17:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:17:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Satya Devireddy X-Sender: satya@srv.kapmail.com To: Peng ZhengWen cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Why named hangs up? In-Reply-To: <01BDDBFF.C0FB9AE0@ws2.stc.sh.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I config the /etc/named.boot file and then startup the named daemon.but named seems hang up,and the client request name solution from the name server can not connect the name server?What is the reason? > By the way,is there any utility that used to convert /etc/hosts to named format database in FreeBSD?Where can I get it? > My operating system is FreeBSD 2.2.5. what version of named are you using ? The latest version of bind is 8.1.2 The configuration setting have changed a lot between 4.x and 8.x isn't there supposed to be a /etc/namedb/named.conf file ? There are some good bind manuals for 4.x out there. If it is 8.x I can help. (I never worked on a 4.x) -Satya ----------------- Satya Devireddy satya@dspsoft.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message