Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: bts@babbleon.org Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird Linux / nameserver interaction Message-ID: <200109261814.f8QIEDi74396@explorer.rsa.com> References: <01092608154803.00563@i8k.babbleon.org> <01092608242005.00563@i8k.babbleon.org>
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In local.freebsd.emulation you write: [...] >In article <Uvl7O9x7x=7K0QUHdpG5BIckDrry@4ax.com>, >Kevin Neal <saskpn@wnt.sas.com> wrote: >|On 15 Aug 2001 20:18:10 GMT, bts@wnt.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger) >|wrote: >| >|>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. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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