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Thanks for the reply Jay.<BR>
I agree your question is important to know for administration purposes.<BR>
But don't you agree that order is not an issue for me (I have no defined DNS servers)?<BR>
Unless there is a hidden "default" server polled?<BR>
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CHEERS<BR>
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On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:50 -0500, Jay Nugent wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Greetings,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, (Skip) K8RRA wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Good morning again - I have a curious situation...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I am now operation on a FC-6 platform for the past few weeks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> This upgrade I chose to "begin over" by building on a fresh filesystem</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> rather than "upgrade" over the previous one.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> OK - my process is flawed and I have oversite to deal with...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> One of the new jnos failures was to resolve names from /jnos/domain.txt.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Sysop command "domain look ..." worked, but user BBS command "send</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> user-at-name" failed.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> The solution was to set the host to forward traffic (my oversite</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> repaired).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Now the reason I bring this up is:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> JNOS has all the resources to resolve names to IP addresses internally -</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> no host required.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Also no host resources are configured for DNS purposes.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So my question is:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Why does jnos fail for lack of host connectivity when no host resource</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> is needed by jnos DNS client?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Also - does any existing document cover this detail of configuration?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> In a much shorter question, and I think this is what Skip is basically</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">asking:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> How does one set up JNOS to first querry the domain.txt file for DNS </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">resolves, and failing a successfull lookup, go to the nearest DNS server </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">asking for a resolve?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> In Linux we do this by seeting the search order to host,bind. But how </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is it done in JNOS?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> --- Jay Nugent WB8TKL</FONT>
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