From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 11:14:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA07708 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.161]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 09 May 1998 20:11:58 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00362; Sat, 9 May 1998 20:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35535042.29A604AC@federal.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 20:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Matthew Sharlot Subject: RE: Hmm! Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-May-98 Matthew Sharlot wrote: > Hi, > > 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 that I get amessage saying that communicator is already in > use along with a load of blurb about a lock file, when I know damn well Check if there is a symlink in ~/.netscape/ named lock and pointing to your IP (xx.yy.zz:port) Delete if needed. > that I haven't started the process at all and when I try to kill the > process that it says it is running under I get told that there is no > such process. After I've clicked OK to start it communicator seems to > hang and I cannot even kill the process. I also get a message Probably name-service request. This bites me since netscape-3.0. This bastard just wants to look up netscape.com If this is the case, just wait till the request times out and then set it to start with blank page. > /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument. Any suggestions? I know it isn't a big > problem, but it means that I have to be online all the time I'm writing > e-mails which isn't very cost effective. Dont know about the spwd.db-thing (no idea). > 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? I really just want to see that what I have set up is working > correctly. I have deleted /etc/resolv.conf to make sure that I'm not > using my ISP's name servers and everything seems to work O.K. I just > really want a final bit of reassurance. bind (named) does this by default. Your named.boot file may contain a line "cache . " which hints named to a file with pointers to root-domain-servers. Chaching of lookups and resolved requests is done by default but not saved anywhere, except for secondary domains. Malte. > > Thanks in advance > > Matthew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 09-May-98 Time: 17:29:21 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message