From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 07:02:54 -0400
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: domain name services from unix?
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the short answer to kiran's question is that he probably
isn't running ndb/dns on the terminal.  it needs to be started
in /rc/bin/termrc.  otherwise ndb/cs finds only those names
listed in the /lib/ndb files and the system doesn't (can't) use
the DNS for translation.

also, `soa' should only be used in a dom= entry
when the /lib/ndb files really are authoratitive
for the associated domain (ie, no name or resource record exists in that domain that
cannot be found in /lib/ndb).

i looked up his domain in the DNS, but it seems his site
has separate internal/external name servers.  given the entries
he showed previously, it looks as though the correct entry will be

dom=sasi.ernet.in
	ns=202.21.147.10

or alternatively

dom=sasi.ernet.in
	ns=<name server's domain name>
dom=<name server's domain name> ip=<name server's IP address>

together with the dom=/ns= entries for the root domain he previously showed,
but excluding sasi.ernet.in from that list.