Bind 8.2.2 P5 Problem

[Kevin Darcy]

To summarize, you set up a nameserver, it appears to work from other hosts
(e.g. a Win95 box), but not on the box itself.

You're trying to resolve an unqualified name. Does it work if you
fully-qualify the name? Are you sure you have the same default domain
and/or searchlist parameters in /etc/resolv.conf as you have on the Win95
box (where they're probably referred to as "domain suffixes")?


- Kevin

ioda at my-deja.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to dns and bind but after reading "The book" i'm trying to make
> it works !
>
> I have an SCO unixware 7.0.1 box and a win95 box.
>
> 1)I have compiled bind 8.2.2 P5 without problem.
>
> 2)setting up configuration files for domtest.my
> db.cache, db.127.0.0, db.xxx.yyy.zzz ;-), db.domtest.my
>
> 3)setting up /etc/resolv.conv
> domain domtest.my
> namserver xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn (the unixware 7.0.1 box @)
>
> 4)starting up named... Ok !
> 5)looking at syslog... nothing wrong !
> 6)trying some nslookup on the server... Fine !
>
> 7)then trying
> $>ping win95cli
> $>UX:ping: ERROR: unknown host win95cli
>
> $>ping uxw7ns
> $>UX:ping: ERROR: unknown host uxw7ns
>
> $>telnet uxw7ns
> uxw7ns: Unknown host
>
> 8)trying from win95 client (after deleting c:\windows\hosts and
> configure dns properly an REBOOT :-(
>
> C:\WINDOWS\ping uxw7ns
>
> Pinging uxw7ns.domtest.my [xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn] with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
> Reply from xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
> Reply from xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
> Reply from xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
>
> Ping statistics for xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  1ms, Average =  0ms
>
> 9)I'have also activate queries log by adding this to named.conf
> logging {
>         category queries {
>                 default_syslog;
>         };
> };
>
> I can see in syslog (uxw7ns box)
>
> when pinging from win95cli (xxx.yyy.zzz.mmm)
> Nov  4 18:37:24 uxw7ns named[1701]:
> XX+/xxx.yyy.zzz.mmm/uxw7ns.domtest.my/A/IN
>
> or when starting nslookup
> Nov  4 18:46:42 uxw7ns named[1701]:
> XX+/127.0.0.1/1.0.0.127.inaddr.arpa/PTR/IN
>
> So it seems to work !!!!
>
> Whats wrong ?
> why ping, telnet etc... can't resolve address locally on the server ?
>
> Looking forward for help !
> thanks.
>
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