From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 2 11:53:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from newmail.skyrunner.net (newmail.skyrunner.net [208.133.44.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FFF37B407 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skyrunne6e8soa (booray.new-era.com [208.150.25.130]) by newmail.skyrunner.net (8.11.2/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with SMTP id f92Iris05857; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:53:44 -0400 From: "Peter Brezny" To: Cc: Subject: RE: dual dns resolution problem -- Solved Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200110021640.JAA18367@mail4.bigmailbox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Something which appears to clear up the problem was a modification of the host.conf file (did i mention this was a base 4.3-release install?) I changed the resolv.conf file from this: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file order hosts,bind # Now try the nameserver next. #bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis To this: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file order hosts #order hosts,bind # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis Thanks for your consideration. Peter Brezny Skyrunner.net -----Original Message----- From: irado@nettaxi.com [mailto:irado@nettaxi.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:41 PM To: peter@skyrunner.net; freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: peter@skyrunner.net Subject: RE: dual dns resolution problem I tried here bymyself and there are no troubles to connect to my own server., neither connecting from home - name resolves nicely. And that is the culprit: 'failure in name resolution'.. means that your name server cannot resolve name-to-ipaddr. Resume: you *must* go back to your named files, mainly the ones which says that novell.com is the 192.168.something. Or (if is the case) your named must get the ip-adrress from the forwarders (from world). > >%ssh novell.com >ssh: novell.com: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution > saudações, irado furioso com tudo linux user 179402 deus é construído à imagem e semelhança do homem. Principalmente em seus defeitos. por favor, clique aqui: http://www.thehungersite.com e aqui também: http://cf6.uol.com.br/umminuto/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi would like to ask for your help in donations to the RED CROSS today! http://www.nyredcross.org/donate/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message