Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:47:39 +0200 From: Vadim Chekan <vadim@gc.lviv.ua> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken? Message-ID: <3806092B.E419F8D8@gc.lviv.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910140809430.25661-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote: > > From FreeBSD-3.2 (I checked this on 4 machines) > > ========================================================= > > bash-2.03$ host 212.109.34.132 > > 132.34.109.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA is a nickname for > > 132.34.109.212.cscd.lviv.ua > > IN-ADDR DNS for that block is definitely screwed up, because I can't > even get an answer from here. What do you mean? "host 212.109.34.132" doesn't do any output for you? > Also, "host" in 3.2 can find CNAMEs, so it does not follow the CNAME. I > think it does an ANY search. > In this case, the "CNAME" has been followed. Probably because "host" > did a PTR search instead of any ANY search. > > Whether "host" follows the CNAME or not is irrelevant. gethostbyname() > should still do the right thing. So this is just strange behavior of 'host'? If I understund right this is rather bind issue, not FreeBSD so that I'll move to more appropriate maillist :) Vadim Chekan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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