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From: mcba@magellan.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Michael C. B. Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: resolver
Summary: /etc/resolv.conf doesn't help either
Keywords: 4.0
Message-ID: <816@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Date: 24 Aug 90 22:51:52 GMT
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In article <26D537A0.18921@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
> Sounds like you haven't setup your /etc/resolv.conf file.  You can
> either do it by hand or run /usr/etc/bindsetup.

Thanks Mike for your comments, however, setting up /etc/resolv.conf
doesn't help either. I should have mentioned that I am trying to set up
a BIND secondary server, which according to the old ULTRIX 3.0
documentation must not have an /etc/resolv.conf file present (although
man 5 resolv.conf says that "The /etc/resolv.conf file is required if
your system is running BIND."). If I do create an /etc/resolv.conf file
and specify a nameserver, then the resolver does work, but my machine
has now become a BIND client and not a secondary server.

I should point out that the previous incarnation of the machine was as a
DS3100 running ULTRIX 3.1D, and the secondary server stuff was working
fine without /etc/resolv.conf. In setting up the new system I have used
netsetup install, bindsetup, and svcsetup.

Anyway, I think my best bet is to wait the arrival of the ULTRIX 4.0
hardcopy manuals on BIND/Hesiod. Thanks again for everyone's comments.

Michael Ashley  mcba@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au
Astrophysics Dept., University of New South Wales