Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:07:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: empey@integral.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS and "local host name" Message-ID: <19970908100756.20253@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <26F3A33E89@integral.on.ca>; from David Empey on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:30:35PM -0500 References: <26F3A33E89@integral.on.ca>
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On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:30:35PM -0500, David Empey wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am getting the following error when I try to make DNS enquiries
> from my system:
>
> Can't find servername for address 127.0.0.1: No response from
> server.
>
> I'm running a cache only DNS and am on the net successfully (I can
> ping using IP numbers).
You still need an entry for localhost. Try this:
1. Add the following line to /etc/named.boot
primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa localhost.reverse
2. Create a file localhost.reverse in the directory specified in your
named.boot. Put the following into it:
; Reverse mapping for localhost domain
;
; $Id: localhost.reverse,v 1.1 1997/01/09 14:29:34 grog Exp $
;
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA DNS.MYFQDN. DNS.MYFQDN. (
97010901 ; Serial (date, 2 digits version of day)
86400 ; refresh (1 day)
7200 ; retry (2 hours)
604800 ; expire (7 days)
86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
IN NS DNS.MYFQDN.
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS DNS.MYFQDN.
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.MYFQDN
Replace MYFQDN with your fully qualified domain name (would appear to
be integral.on.ca), and DNS with the name of the system running the
name server. Send a sighup to your named, and things should be fine.
Greg
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