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From: aoki@faerie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
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Subject: Re: Fun with BIND 4.8
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Date: 9 Feb 89 23:09:30 GMT
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In article <9651@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
>I'm really at a loss here.  The installation of BIND 4.8 went smoothly,
>nslookup works fine, but other programs compiled with -lresolv don't work.
>The call to gethostbyname() doesn't even generate any request packets; 
>instead, h_errno is set to TRY_AGAIN and errno is set to ENOTTY 
>("inappropriate ioctl for device").

From: iglesias@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU
> 								Did
> you create a world-readable /etc/resolv.conf?  The code needs
> that to work properly, I think.

From the "Name Server Operations Guide to BIND, Release 4.8":
> To set up a host that will use a remote server instead of a local server to 
> answer queries, the file /etc/resolv.conf needs to be created.  This file 
> designates the name servers on the network that should be sent queries.  It 
> is not advisable to create this file if you have a local server running.

Needless to say, it's pretty advisable to create the file whether you have a 
local server running or not -- so much for RTFM.  Thanks, Mike.

OK, so BIND does work practically out of the box.  Another blow struck in the
battle to eliminate YP in our lifetime ..

[ p.s. For anyone who was wondering: we never did get the Fujitsu M2372s to
  work.  The boss-man said, "This isn't worth it," and traded the 2372s in for
  2382s (Swallow 5s). ]
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