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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!andy
- From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
- Subject: Re: Names no longer being seen (gethostbyname stops) with ISC 2.2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181359.19223@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <JTSILLA.92Nov15221020@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <Bxsso5.3sF@csi.compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:13:59 GMT
- Lines: 46
-
- sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:
- >In article <JTSILLA.92Nov15221020@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) writes:
- >>
- >>I'm not sure when this started happenning but recently I installed the
- >>Basic Networking package and configured sendmail. Besides this there
- >>have been no changes. Since I am not hooked up to a network I noticed it
- >>after some time had passed.
- >>
- >>Has anyone seen this on their system? I'm running ISC 2.2.1 with TCP/IP
- >>1.2 on a 386 AT.
-
- >First of all, run, do not walk, to your telephone and order the upgrade
- >to TCP/IP 1.3. The 1.2 version is so buggy that even the Orkin man
- >gave up on it. (For example, pinging another machine can cause your
- >machine to crash.)
-
- >Now that I've got that off my chest... My guess is that you changed
- >your nameserver information when you updated sendmail. Check out
- >what you've got in /etc/resolv.conf. If that looks kosher, make
- >sure you've got a route to the nameserver(s) with netstat -nr.
-
- First let me echo Sam's comments - get TCP/IP 1.3 immediately.
-
- Secondly, there was a nice little buglet in ISC 2.2(.1) which when
- you configured Sendmail without a nameserver would put the wrong
- line in /etc/resolv.conf - instead of putting "nonameserver" it would
- put "nameserver" in there. Nameserver expects the IP address of a
- host with which to query for name service. Change /etc/resolv.conf to
- read something like this:
-
- <>domain vistachrome.com
- <>nonameserver
-
- -Andy
-
- > - Sam
- >--
- >Sam Neely, CompuServe Incorporated +1 614 457 8600 (voice)
- >5000 Arlington Centre Blvd, Columbus, OH 43220 +1 614 457 0348 (FAX)
- >Electronic Mail: InfoPlex: >CSI:SAM Internet: SAM@CSI.COMPUSERVE.COM
- >To err is human, to forgive is against company policy
- --
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