fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey) (04/03/91)
Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 .
The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't
figure it at all.
Symptoms:
sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
ping and finger say "unknown host"
nslookup works fine.
Question:
Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem?
any help would be appreciated.
Allan Bailey |Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are not
fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu|those of Texas A&M. void where prohibited,
|some thinking required, your mileage may vary.anlauf@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de (Thomas Anlauf) (04/05/91)
From article <14092@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey): > > Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 . > > The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't > figure it at all. > > Symptoms: > > sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown" > > ping and finger say "unknown host" > > nslookup works fine. > > Question: > > Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem? > > any help would be appreciated. > If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS- makefile while making "hosts.time": hosts.time: $(DIR)/hosts -@if [ -f $(DIR)/hosts ]; then \ sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/hosts | $(STDHOSTS) \ | awk '{for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) print $$i, $$0}' \ | $(MAKEDBM) -b - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/hosts.byname; \ ... /|\ ... | ... | Greetings - Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GMD | n o Thomas Anlauf | n e w s Rheinstr. 75 | i s D-6100 Darmstadt | b a d EMail: anlauf@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de | n e w s
steve@castle.ed.ac.uk (S D Law) (04/09/91)
In article <14092@helios.TAMU.EDU> fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey) writes: > > Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 . > > The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't >figure it at all. > At the top of the Makefile in /var/yp set the parameter B to be -b, ie. B=-b Now delete all *.time files in /var/yp and remake all your maps(remember to delete all unwanted host names from the hosts file. Usually a good idea to leave local names but delete others). Restart ypserv and also ypbind on any clients. Steve.
krista@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Krista Shufelt) (04/10/91)
In article <4056@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de> anlauf@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de (Thomas Anlauf) writes: >From article <14092@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey): >> Symptoms: >> sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown" >> ping and finger say "unknown host" >> nslookup works fine. >If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS- >makefile while making "hosts.time": We have the same problem. Is there any way we can resolve names without running NIS? krista shufelt krista@jarthur.claremont.edu ...uunet!jarthur!krista