Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:38:25 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andrei Brezan <andrei693@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Odd problem with DNS and IP change. Message-ID: <200902282338.25799.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <49A969A1.90001@gmail.com> References: <49A95AF8.2060608@gmail.com> <49A969A1.90001@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:43:13 Andrei Brezan wrote:
> Andrei Brezan wrote:
> > "ping mail.domain.com" it tries to get to 10.1.1.1 the old ip and gets
> > time to live exceeded fro an ip along the route. When i try to ping
> > domain.com it gets all ok as it pings the new ip.
> Disregard my noise. It was a file called hosts in /etc, changed there
> the ip for mail.domain.com and now ping works ok.
> Sorry about that.
As a rule, only use /etc/hosts for hosts that cannot be resolved by DNS (i.e.:
local network) or NFS hosts that provide critical filesystems (because the
resolver might not be reachable at /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote time).
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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