chris@softway.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) (02/05/91)
We have a Xenix 2.3.2 system with SCO TCP/IP ver 1.0 acting
as a server for our UUCP and other dial-up connections. As we
are running BIND nameservers on other network hosts it seemed
reasonable to enable the named on the Xenix system as a secondary.
We then encountered the following problems.
1) named would cope with several requests ok, say for a few minutes
then it would fail to respond again. Killing it and restarting
would repeat the cycle. Sending it the signal which dumps the
database works fine and the data is ok too. Note that they fail
to document the requirement for the DOMAIN environment variable to
be set to your local domain name for named and requesters to even
work at all!
2) setting up resolv.conf to point at another machine for nameserver
requests got around problem 1 at the expense of slightly longer delays.
However, now rlogind (under Xenix) refuses to service requests from
any of our local machines (and probably elsewhere). Depending on the
requesting host the error message returned is :
Address already in use
EOF on input
Error 0
which I assume means that rlogind can't cope with domain specified
addresses being returned by gethostbyaddr() - though it could be
a problem with the DOMAIN environment variable also.
The problem goes away if you don't run named or use resolv.conf.
Does anyone have any light to shed on this? We can cope without named
for now, but forthcoming Internet connectivity will strain things a little.
Chris
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