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