DNS problems with telnet/ftp/whois

[Dan Sloane]

That works nicely. Thanks!

Every web resource I looked at when setting up bind said different things as
regards to host.conf.... it must be time to go and spend money on the
FreeBSD books.


Many thanks,
Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Blackman <mark at blackmans.org>
To: Richard Smith <rdls at satamatics.com>
Cc: Dan Sloane <mail at dansloane.co.uk>; <freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: DNS problems with telnet/ftp/whois


>
> good point, that "order hosts,bind" is linux/SYSV -ism
> I believe. I suspect thats it.
>
> > > My host.conf is:
> > >
> > >     # host.conf for cuthbert.lockside-court.co.uk
> > >     # dms / 07.02.2001
> > >     #
> > >
> > >     order hosts,bind
> >
> > That's new, I just use:
> >
> > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
> > # First try the /etc/hosts file
> > hosts
> > # Now try the nameserver next.
> > bind
> > # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
> > # nis
> >
> > Rich.
> >
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