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- From: ash@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Art Harkin)
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:32:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: Problems with 'named'
- Message-ID: <4310333@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcss01!hpindda!ash
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Dec15.154406.2988@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- >system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes...
- >
- >> Unless your /etc/resolv.conf file contains nonsense, or you are
- >> resolving names by NIS instead of DNS, you may have fallen on the
- >> $INCLUDE bug in HP-UX named --- if you use $INCLUDE, it will destroy
- >> your named data, since things like SOA records in the included file
- >> are not seen, and IP address, etc, are garbled (many of ours got 255
- >> inserted into one of the fields, which were easy to spot from a database
- >> dump).
- >
-
- [my previouse post removed for brevity -ash]
-
- >system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) responded...
- >
- > I hate to be picky, but what I said is precisely correct, and is in fact
- > exactly what you just said in your posting! Using $INCLUDE causes the
- > SOA record to be ignored, and the named data becomes corrupted.
-
- After reading your orignal posting a second time, I still believe that
- a few things you said were unclear, and needed to be corrected. I felt your
- comments implied that include files did not work at all ("if you use $INCLUDE,
- it will destroy your named data, since things like SOA records...")
- I am concerned that this unclear statement could cause other people to
- believe that include files do not work. When in fact they do work, UNLESS
- they put their SOA record for the zone inside the include file (which is not
- a very common thing to do).
-
-
- > We have compiled our own named from BSD source, and it works better
- > but not perfectly (the $INCLUDE does work properly however).
-
- A second thing I believe was misleading was that your comments stated
- this was an HP-UX bug alone, since you said that after compiling BSD sources
- this problem was fixed. This bug is found in BIND 4.8.3 code, and is now
- finally fixed in 4.9 alpha code (not yet officially released by Berkeley).
- You compiled a new named using patches not distributed by BSD.
-
-
- > Given that I originally called in this problem in June, that it was not
- > fixed in 9.0 and that a patch is still not available is none too impressive.
-
- Your report reached the lab a few days before the 9.00 code freeze,
- and could not be included, since testing needed to be performed and
- several tests needed to be changed. It will be fixed in the next major
- release. The low impact of this bug prevented it being included after
- code freeze, there are reasonable workarounds and this bug is not seen
- by many customers (in fact so far Utoronto is the only one).
-
- Your report is the only one filed on this problem for named. After you
- posted on the net a few months ago, I responded to you by private e-mail
- and you mentioned that you already solved the problem by using your own
- named sources and that this part of your named problems was resolved. Thus
- I did not rush a patch for you, since you already fixed it. A patch is
- forthcoming, but I am delaying it until I can incorporate other patches
- put in BIND 4.9... thus avoiding having a bunch of named patches floating
- around.
-
- Hopefully, you can see that I am concerned that this patch and problem
- be put in perspective. I felt that your original posting was unclear enough
- to let others think this was an HP only problem with include files not
- working at all. This may have cause an uneccessary rush for uneeded patches,
- since they did not understand the problem fully.
-
-
- Art Harkin
-
- Hewlett-Packard Company E-mail: ash@cup.hp.com
- Information Networks Division
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