[nos-bbs] DNS requirements

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, (Skip) K8RRA wrote:

> Good morning again - I have a curious situation...
> 
> I am now operation on a FC-6 platform for the past few weeks.
> This upgrade I chose to "begin over" by building on a fresh filesystem
> rather than "upgrade" over the previous one.
> OK - my process is flawed and I have oversite to deal with...
> 
> One of the new jnos failures was to resolve names from /jnos/domain.txt.
> Sysop command "domain look ..." worked, but user BBS command "send
> user-at-name" failed.
> The solution was to set the host to forward traffic (my oversite
> repaired).
> 
> Now the reason I bring this up is:
> JNOS has all the resources to resolve names to IP addresses internally -
> no host required.
> Also no host resources are configured for DNS purposes.
> 
> So my question is:
> Why does jnos fail for lack of host connectivity when no host resource
> is needed by jnos DNS client?
> Also - does any existing document cover this detail of configuration?

   In a much shorter question, and I think this is what Skip is basically
asking:

   How does one set up JNOS to first querry the domain.txt file for DNS 
resolves, and failing a successfull lookup, go to the nearest DNS server 
asking for a resolve?

   In Linux we do this by seeting the search order to host,bind.  But how 
is it done in JNOS?

      --- Jay Nugent  WB8TKL
             
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