ced@bcstec.uucp (Charles Derykus) (02/01/91)
I'm having a domain name resolution problem with AIX. Apparently, recursive lookup toward the root does not work, e.g., suppose the machine "shoalcreek" is the "austin.ibm.com" domain and the machine "brazos" is the "ibm.com" domain from "shoalcreek", I try to telnet to "brazos": shoalcreek# telnet brazos If you're on nameservice this should work. Your "austin.ibm.com" nameserver won't find "brazos.austin.ibm.com" and so will pass the request up through cache to the nameserver for "ibm.com" who finds "brazos.ibm.com" in its domain and so sends successful resolution back to "shoalcreek". Only it doesn't work. In our case here at Boeing with a comparable scenario it just returns "unknown host". Has anyone encountered this? Any help much appreciated. Charles DeRykus Internet: ced@bcstec.boeing.com Boeing Computer Services UUCP: ...!uunet!bcstec!ced Renton, WA. M/S 6R-37 (206) 938-4520 (home)
jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (02/01/91)
In article <640@bcstec.boeing.com> ced@bcstec.uucp (Charles Derykus) writes: > > I'm having a domain name resolution problem with AIX. Apparently, recursive >lookup toward the root does not work, e.g., >Has anyone encountered this? Any help much appreciated. Yes, I have commented on this before. BIND on the 6000 is very backlevel, on the 370 and PS/2 it has been updated but apparently not on the 6000. You should open an APAR with your official support contact on this and perhaps get them to update their code to get into sync with the rest of the family :-}. Disclaimer: I don't speak for LCC or IBM -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM