From owner-freebsd-isdn Sun Jan 23 4:46: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-85.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2791314C1D for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23724; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:19:09 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00978; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:19:07 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200001231219.MAA00978@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Roland Jesse Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: leafnode+, DNS, and a dialup connection using i4b In-Reply-To: Message from Roland Jesse of "23 Jan 2000 12:06:00 +0100." <0vu2k51207.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:19:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [Posted this to -questions before but to no avail. Does not look like > there are active i4b users over there.] I think a lot of people have run away from -questions due to the signal:noise ratio. > Ok, thanks to i4b, my isdn connection is more or less up and running > and I do my best to ignore the "File exists" error by ifconfig. But I > still don't get the whole dilup setup done correctly. The world was > just so much easier with a steady internet connection. :-> ppp(8) won't produce ``file exists'' message :*] > How does one setup a DNS lookup? I am planning to use leafnode+ to > fetch news for me. Leafnode+ is started via inetd with the following > entry in /etc/inetd.conf: > > ------- cut ------- > nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/local/sbin/leafnode leafnode > ------- cut ------- > > Nothing special, I would say. Whenever I do a 'telnet localhost nntp', > I get the following syslog message: > > ------- cut ------- > Jan 20 20:55:07 arthur leafnode[671]: unable to parse server (server news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de has no =) > ------- cut ------- I don't know how much like leafnode leafnode+ is, but with leafnode you need ``server = news.whatever''. It sounds like you left out the ``=''. > Ok, so I put the ip address of this news.cs machine in /etc/hosts: > > ------- cut ------- > 141.44.21.70 loriot loriot.cs.uni-magdeburg.de news news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de > ------- cut ------- > > /etc/host.conf is of course > > ------- cut ------- > hosts > bind > ------- cut ------- > > The above error message stays the same. That's why I thought having a > little own named would be a nice idea. > > That's the try for /etc/resolv.conf: > > ------- cut ------- > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 141.44.1.2 > nameserver 141.44.1.1 > domain uni-magdeburg.de > ------- cut ------- I wouldn't tend to mix 127.0.0.1 and other nameservers here. Use forwarders in your named.conf instead. [.....] > Roland -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message