From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: Network Installation (Requested follow-up) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 07:15:18 GMT
<ASHZJ@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>(&&: After you run "hostcvt.build", edit your "resolv.conf" file and
>"host.conf" file. In my case, the "resolv.conf" file is:
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>domain la.asu.edu.
>nameserver 129.219.17.5
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Note that the nameserver IP is the IP number of the machine that provides
>additional table look-up as you did with your "hosts" file. For example, if
>you use "sunsite.unc.edu" to access the Linux FTP site and this name is not
>in your "hosts" file, the machine will go to the nameserver to get IP and
>make the connection.
how does one *find* a nameserver to use? is there a list of
them available for 'public' use or do you have to beg and plead with
some sys admin at another site :) Also, my understanding was that
you could have 2+ nameserver lines in your resolv.conf. I tried
putting two in (local gateway first, 'distant' nameserver second) but
it wouldn't seem to work until I switched the order. From this I'm
assuming that it is only reading the one line...was my understanding
wrong?
>Also, replace your "host.conf" file with the following:
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>order hosts,bind
>multi
a couple of points...hostcvt.build doesn't seem to come with
the net-2 binaries, I had to dig them out of the old net-1's that I
had laying around (small point, but might save one guy panicking that
he doesn't have it :) )...
bind...still don't quite understand that one, but I seem to
have gotten it working tonight *shrug* Is all that is required to
get bind working is to get the libresolv.a library?
Small points, I realize, but again, they might help someone
who is reading about this but doesn't know why it isn't working as
explained...like I was...:(
Marc