Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:25:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cache-only named won't resolve "localhost" Message-ID: <43000B38.8040002@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4w1x4wyqkl.x4w@mail.opusnet.com> References: <4w1x4wyqkl.x4w@mail.opusnet.com>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >I think I followed the bind manual and poked around /var/named and it >has been working OK for a few weeks until I pointed my browser to >"localhost" and then I tried "host localhost". It can resolve >"127.0.0.1" back to "localhost.localhost." fine, but if I try >my name "localhost" or "localhost.localhost", I get this: > ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached" >(at least until I tried it just now while on-line, when it >works OK, resolving my modem/router's localhost, I suppose). > >/etc/hosts: > ::1 localhost.localhost localhost > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localhost localhost > 10.0.0.4 localhost.localhost localhost > >/etc/hosts.conf: > # Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit > hosts > bind > >/etc/resolv.conf (same with this file missing): > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > >I can "ping localhost" OK. > >I thought that "host" should use the same stub resolver as "ping" >before trying "bind". > >Can I not use "/etc/hosts" with a cache-only named? > >Must I have an authoritive zone for "localhost"? > >Or what? > >Thanks. > > Did you `sh /var/named/etc/namedb/make-localhost` ? Or, maybe I'm just not catching on.... :-( Kevin Kinsey
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