Network Configuration

Network Configuration

[Sohail]

I am on a network with other machines running NEXTSTEP.  I tried to  
configure /lib/ndb/local as following.

dom=
	ns=eunuch.next.com

dom=eunuch.next.com ip=129.18.11.10

dom=next.com soa
         mb=none.vectra.next.com
         ns=eunuch.next.com


sys = vectra
	dom=vectra.next.com
	ip=129.18.11.148  ether=00a02429ed1d
    	bootfile=/386/9pcdisk
	proto=il

ipnet=loca ip=129.18.10.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
	ipgw=129.18.11.1



The domain name at my site is "next.com"
The name of the DNS server is "eunuch"
The name of the computer running Plan 9 is "vectra"
The router is "129.18.11.1"


If I run ndb/dnsquery.  It does resolvs correctly for the machine "vectra"  
(on which Plan 9 is running).  But any other machine it comes with the  
following error:

> bog.next.com ip
!dns: not found

If I do "netstat" I get:

tcp 0  none  Closed   0     0   0.0.0.0
udp 0  none  Dgram    tftp  0   0.0.0.0
udp 1  none  Dgram    0     0   0.0.0.0


I know that the network card is (probably) working properly, since it is  
being recoginzed at initialization.

Please Help!.

Thankyou
Sohail Zahid

Network Configuration

[Dave]

I think what you wanted to say was:

# point all domain requests to eunuch
dom=
	ns=eunuch.next.com
dom=eunuch.next.com ip=129.18.11.10

# define plan9 machine
sys=vectra
	dom=vectra.next.com
	ip=129.18.11.148  ether=00a02429ed1d
    bootfile=/386/9pcdisk
	proto=il

# define a class B net to have a submask
ipnet=xyzzy ip=129.18.0.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0

# define a subnet
ipnet=loca ip=129.18.10.0
	ipgw=129.18.11.1

Forget about the soa entry.  It just defines a subtree that
is being served by this machine.  In your case nothing is.