Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:53:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Matthew Sharlot <matthew@federal.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmm! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508155148.28351M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35535017.FA3D9479@federal.co.uk>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Matthew Sharlot wrote: > I have recently set up my own name server and have a couple of queries. > Firstly, since having set up the ns, I cannot get communicator 4.05 to > run properly unless I have first established a PPP connection. What > happens is communicator seems to hang and I cannot even kill the > process. I also get a message /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument. Any > suggestions? If you have name service set up, when you make a request, the name server wants to ask the root server about it. If you aren't dialed in then it can't do that. The spwd.db thing I have no knowledge about. It's a FreeBSD goodie, I guess. It's done it on my systems too. > Secondly, I assume that having set up the ns there must be a local cache > of addresses somewhere, to save having to look up the same addresses > again and again. Any idea where this is and whether it is readable or > not? If you have named set up, simply add a cache line to make it cache lookups. See the named man page or `DNS and BIND' for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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