HP-OV and BIND

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Fran <fjre30 at lycos.es> wrote:

> Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote in message news:<ajbmf5$5ihi$1 at isrv4.isc.org>...
>> > 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I'm running HP-Open View application over a HP K-260 whith HP-UX 11.0.
>> > I have BIND 8.3.1 running in this box like secondary DNS.
>> > 
>> > HP-OV is having problems whith the inverse resolution because it can't
>> > find out the name asociated to the ip address of the event that is
>> > received.
>> > 
>> > If I perform a nslookup <name> or nslookup <ip-address> the DNS works
>> > perfectly. But HP-OV doesn't work fine because it can resolve the name
>> > but it can't find out what name is associated to an ip address.
>> > 
>> > I only have this message in syslog.log file:
>> > 
>> > syslog: gethostbyaddr: name.domain. != 172.22.62.5
>> > 
>> > Does anybody know where is the problem ?
>> 
>> 	Yes.  The forward and reverse data don't match.
>> 
>> 	5.62.22.172.in-addr.arpa => name.domain
>> 	name.domain  does not have a A record with 172.22.62.5
>> 	Mark
>>  
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >


> Ok Mark, but ...

> Three months ago I had the same machine whith HP-UX 10.20 and HP-OV
> 5.1. The version of BIND was 4.x. The data BIND files are the same
> that I had in the box with the old version of BIND. And all of them
> worked quite fine. HP-OV could resolve names and ip address whithout
> any problem.

> But now, the SO can resolve the name and the ip address correctly (
> whith nslookup) but not HP-OV. If I insert the ip address in /etc/host
> file there is no problem and HP-OV shows me the events it receives
> with de correct source ( my nsswitch.conf file is pointing first to
> files,DNS ).

> The problem happens when HP-OV tries to work whith the DNS, and I
> don't know why.

What does the nameserver say in it's logfile ?


> Does anybody know how I can trace the requests HP-OV performs to BIND
> ?

querylog the nameserver,   ethereal , tcpdump is 3 suggestions ( i'd
suggest ethereal )

If the nameserver is local to OV you might have to install one 
on another box & change /etc/resolv.conf :-(

> Thanks.


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