[nos-bbs] DNS requirements

[(Skip) K8RRA]

Thanks for the reply Jay.
I agree your question is important to know for administration purposes.
But don't you agree that order is not an issue for me (I have no defined
DNS servers)?
Unless there is a hidden "default" server polled?

CHEERS

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:50 -0500, Jay Nugent wrote:

> 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
>              
> "Getting rid of terrorism is like getting rid of dandruff.  It cannot
>  be done completely no matter how hard you try." -- Gore Vidal
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Jay Nugent   jjn at nuge.com    (734)484-5105    (734)544-4326/Fax        |
> | Nugent Telecommunications  [www.nuge.com]     (734)649-0851/Cell       |
> |   Internet Consulting/Linux SysAdmin/Engineering & Design/ISP Reseller |
> | ISP Monitoring [www.ispmonitor.net] ISP & Modem Performance Monitoring |
> | Web-Pegasus    [www.webpegasus.com] Web Hosting/DNS Hosting/Shell Accts|
> | LinuxNIC, Inc. [www.linuxnic.net]   Registrar of the .linux TLD        |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  10:01am  up 2 days,  5:34,  2 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.02
> _______________________________________________
> nos-bbs mailing list
> nos-bbs at lists.tapr.org
> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs
> _______________________________________________
> nos-bbs mailing list
> nos-bbs at lists.tapr.org
> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs


73
de [George (Skip) VerDuin] K8RRA k
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/nos-bbs_lists.tapr.org/attachments/20070313/1ffe0e7a/attachment.html>