Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:05:12 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>, bts@babbleon.org Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird Linux / nameserver interaction Message-ID: <01092623051200.00591@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200109261814.f8QIEDi74396@explorer.rsa.com> References: <01092608154803.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> <01092608242005.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> <200109261814.f8QIEDi74396@explorer.rsa.com>
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On Wednesday 26 September 2001 14:14, Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote:
> In local.freebsd.emulation you write:
>
> >|>I'm running a local nameserver on FreeBSD so that when I have VPN access
> >|>up I can get SAS names from the SAS name server but external names from
> >|>the RoadRunner name server.
> >|>
> >|>This works just peachy for serving up names to FreeBSD programs, but
> >|>when I run Linux Netscape* it can't resolve any names via the name
> >|>server. That is, if /etc/resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1, then FreeBSD
> >|>apps find names just fine, but Linux apps to do not.
>
> When I had this (?) problem, it turned out that linux clients needed
> an explicit "nameserver 127.0.0.1" line in /etc/resolv.conf, but
> FreeBSD clients implicitly default to localhost. After adding that
> line, linux clients could do DNS lookups.
Geez, I can't believe it was that simple. Thank you very much.
That's all it was.
This fails for Linux:
search unx.sas.com pc.sas.com us.sas.com sas.com
127.0.0.1
But this works:
search unx.sas.com pc.sas.com us.sas.com sas.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
It's like the keyword "nameserver" is implicit for FreeBSD but explicitly
required for Linux.
Thank you very much!
>
> $.02,
> /Mikko
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