Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:31:17 -0500 (CDT) From: mikebo@tellabs.com To: uunet!time.throck.com!jkh (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: mikebo (Mike Borowiec), mrm@mole.mole.org, bugs@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Nameserver install glitch Message-ID: <199608082031.PAA23344@sunc210.tellabs.com> In-Reply-To: <14247.839470991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 7, 96 07:23:11 pm
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Jordan wrote: > Mike Borowiec wrote: > > Is a nameserver mandatory? > > It is for now. :-( > > It never used to be, but some bug crept in which has now made it a > mandatory field. I've looked through the code in question several > times and can't reproduce any nameserver variable related crashes in > multiuser mode (and its value is checked for NULL everywhere it's > used). It's very strange. Anyway, I'm certainly going to try and fix > it but, up to now, have been too busy with other things to set up the > kind of testing environment I could both reproduce and debug the > problem with - if I can't reproduce this running multiuser, I have to > add debugging code for the purpose. :-( > > > Anyway, I'm trying to do a load via NFS, and spec'ed the server like so: > > 198.102.156.5:/usr/FreeBSD. It shouldn't need a nameserver. What to do? > > Enter a nameserver value then nuke your /etc/resolv.conf when you > come up. > Done. Works like a champ! Thanks for the quick response (as always ;v). Regards, - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec - mikebo@tellabs.com - Tellabs Operations Inc. Senior Member of Technical Staff 4951 Indiana Avenue, MS 63 708-512-8211 FAX: 708-512-7099 Lisle, IL 60532 USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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