Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:01:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@access1.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910141054440.26559-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <38061495.15A9@access1.net>
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > I just installed 3.3 and tried ........ > host 212.109.34.132 > on an old 2.2.5 system and got the correct response > however, > I tried the same on the new 3.3 and got...... > host not found > > What do I need to do to properly set up the resolver ? The DNS servers for that in-addr.arpa zone are screwed. I can't get any response. I use classless in-addr.arpa all the time. While "host" may not fully resolve an IP to a name (PTR) for classless in-addr.arpa that doesn't mean the resolver is broken! "host" does not even use gethostbyaddr(). So, there is NOTHING wrong with the resolver. Just some broken DNS servers, and a misunderstanding on what "host" actually does. > Thanks for your time, > > Courtney > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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