macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) (10/17/90)
Hi, does anyone know how to make NeWS independent of nameservers? When the nameservers here are down (which is often) it is impossible to do a login from the console, apparently because NeWS won't start without getting a satisfactory response from the nameserver re: the identity of localhost. It seems pretty odd that it would do such a lookup in the first place, and the NeWS documentation we have is pretty sparse. We're running 3.2.1 incidentally, but we plan on updating to 3.3.1 this week. Thanks. Kurtis MacFerrin macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu
macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) (10/17/90)
In article <4440@husc6.harvard.edu>, macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) writes... >Hi, > does anyone know how to make NeWS independent of nameservers? When the >nameservers here are down (which is often) it is impossible to do a login >from the console, apparently because NeWS won't start without getting a >satisfactory response from the nameserver re: the identity of localhost. It Thanks to Mark Callow and Dave Hinds for the answer: under irix 3.3 a new entry can be placed in /usr/etc/resolv.conf: hostresorder local bind. This means that /etc/hosts is checked before the bind nameservers are queried, and should fix my problem. John Merritt had another suggestion that might work: run named, and put nameserver 0 in the first line of /usr/etc/resolv.conf. Kurtis MacFerrin macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu
SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) (10/19/90)
>> does anyone know how to make NeWS independent of nameservers? ... > >Thanks to Mark Callow and Dave Hinds ...: under irix 3.3 a new entry >can be placed in /usr/etc/resolv.conf: hostresorder local bind. ... But be aware that if you do so, the mere existence of /usr/etc/resolv.conf causes the grahic interface [System][System Manager][Networking] to give up and display "... The /usr/etc/resolv.conf file exists ... you are not able to run this tool". I called this in, and they gave me a song and dance on how you can really mess up your system with this file (true), and that the networking tool was being re-written to allow coexistance with resolv.conf.