Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs.umn.edu!mschroed From: mschroed@ux.acs.umn.edu (Michael Schroeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: named as security violator? Message-ID: <4051@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 03:06:03 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 25 The network of IRIS 4Ds I administer is not connected to the Internet but we want to use gethostbyname. I have read the BIND Name Server section of the manual and all associated reference manual pages. All the configuration files I have constructed "look" like those in the manual. But when I do nslookup from a client it tells me *** machine-b can't find machine-a: No response from server where machine-b is the client and machine-a is the server or any other machine. Yes the client has a resolv.conf in /usr/etc/named.d. named really is running on the server. We are running yp. I have ypserv running with the -i option. Another symptom is that anyone logging in on the console of machine-a (the one running named) gets a pop-up button or banner that says Network Security Violation address of machine-a The security violation goes away as soon as I do /etc/chkconfig named off and reboot. What am I doing wrong? Thanks mike