Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Russell Ingram <rfi@ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automounter for FreeBSD & DNS question Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980626124426.22960D-100000@ws098> In-Reply-To: <199806251325.IAA16586@horton.iaces.com>
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Thanks to all those who replied. I appreciate the helping had. I guess I didn't phrase the second question that well. What my problem is it appears that the DNS server in my environment appends the domain to the end of the machine name in the response to the request for the IP Address. The FreeBSD machine thinks that this is not a match and gives an error and won't use the returned information. This means that I ether have to call a machine by it's machinename.domainname or maintain it in my local host file. Since there is a large number of machines and some of them change often I wouldn't want to maintain the hosts file. And I would prefer to not be required to type in the domainname, it's kind of long. And, none of the other UNIX machines in my environment exhibit this behavior. They just accept the response and use it. No warnings or errors anywhere. I thought there might be something wrong in my setup. If anyone knows what settings might be wrong or where I should put a list of friendly domains I'ld appreciate it. Thanks, Russ On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Russell Ingram said: > > I've been integrating a FreeeBSD machine into our environment in my spare > > time. I'm using FreeBSD version 2.2.2. Everything has been working quite > > well I've only run into two issues: > > > You'd probably be smart to upgrade to 2.2.6 (Release or Stable). > > > > 1. I can't find the equivalent to Sun's automounter on FreeBSD. > > Is there one? > > amd. It's a little different. I have a script that converts an auto_home > into a amd map. > > > > 2. I'm using DNS. When I address a machine that's in the hosts file > > I get a message on the console (as in this time I tried to do a > > ping to ws098): > > > > Jan 24 14:31:28 rtss12 ping : gethostby*. gethostanswer: asked > > for "ws098", got"ws098.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM" > > > > the ping then works. If the machine is not in the hosts file I > > get the same message on the console and the ping returns: > > > > ping: unknown host ws151 > > > > Is there some way to tell FreeBSD to ignore the domain added to > > the machine name. The Suns and other unix machines don't exhibit > > this behavior. > > I guess I don't understand the problem. Are you saying that DNS is not > responding? Then you have a problem with either host.conf or resolv.conf. > > By chance is ws098 an alias of ws098.SanDiegoCA.ncr.com? (IE does it appear > second or third while ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com is first in the line in hosts?) > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > Russell.Ingram@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > When MARRIAGE is illegal, only OUTLAWs will have INLAWS! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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