burns@das.harvard.edu (05/10/91)
I have just set up a new Sparc2 and connected it to the Internet. I have set up the named.* files. I can't get it to interpret names dynamically; even though named is up and running, storing many names in its cache, I get a "host unknown" error every time. What's the matter? Do I have to get BIND and recompile everything, even though my machine came with named already installed? (SunOS 4.1.1) John A. Burns (burns@thurifer.harvard.edu, burns@huche1.bitnet)
katz@rpal.rockwell.com (06/05/91)
In article <2821@brchh104.bnr.ca> burns@das.harvard.edu writes: > > I have just set up a new Sparc2 and connected it to the Internet. I have > set up the named.* files. I can't get it to interpret names dynamically; > even though named is up and running, storing many names in its cache, I > get a "host unknown" error every time. What's the matter? Do I have to > get BIND and recompile everything, even though my machine came with named > already installed? (SunOS 4.1.1) > Are you running NIS(YP)? Sun's nameserver only works through NIS. Did you remember to put the -b flag in /var/yp/Makefile to tell it you want DNS to run? Did you run ypbind with the -d flag to tell it to use DNS?