marcel@dx7.UUCP (Marcel Bernards) (10/19/88)
We are trying to set up a nameserver for our IP-domain.
Our TCP-IP domain exists of a number of SUN workstations and a
large amount of UB NIU-130's and NIU-180's.
We want to use a SUN-4/280 as the root domain name server.
The only thing we want to do is use UB-NIU tcp telnet>>connect <hostname>
instead of telnet>>open <IP-Address> [port nr] ( = user unfriendly )
Currently we didn't succeed due to a problem in the named.db database ( ??)
We think we did all things right ....
{ as in the example in the SUN manual [RFC ....] }
Here the examples of the related files:
*** named.boot ***
;
; boot file for name server
;
domain ECN-NLERF
primary ECN-NLERF /etc/named.db
**** named.db ***
@ IN SOA ecn.ECN-NLERF. root.ecn.ECN-NLERF. (
1.1 ;version
3600 ;refresh
300 ;retry
3600000 ;expire
3600 ) ;minimum
IN NS ecn.ECN-NLERF.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
loghost IN CNAME localhost
ecn IN A 130.112.1.1
zappa IN A 130.112.1.5
dx7 IN A 130.112.1.7
ibis IN A 130.112.1.87
niu53 IN A 130.112.1.53
*** piece off named.run debugging log file ***
dqp->dq_addr 127.0.0.1 d_dfd 9
dqp->dq_addr 130.112.1.1 d_dfd 10
Ready to answer queries.
prime_cache: priming = 0
datagram from 130.112.1.53, 10 34304 (23)
ns_req()
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 17515, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: rd
qdcount = 1, ancount = 0, nscount = 0, arcount = 0
QUESTIONS:
ZAPPA, type = A, class = IN
req: nlookup(ZAPPA) id 17515 type=1
req: missed 'ZAPPA' as '' (cname=0)
findns: using cache
findns: using hints
findns: No root nameservers?
req: answer -> 130.112.1.53 10 (34304) id=17515 Local
***** end **
Who knows what i did wrong ??
please E-mail.
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--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (10/23/88)
Unless you are using the latest (Release 16) of the UB code it is NOT using domain name resolution. Older UB TCP's use the IEN116 name server, which sun calls in.tnamed. This reads /etc/hosts. I recompiled it on our machine so that it would call the domain version of gethostbyname. The UB's then came alive. It's probably just easier to get UB to send you Rel 16, because you can not make the older PC/NIU software to work without substantial hacks to the tnamed anyway. -Ron