[9fans] Problems with dns

[9fans] Problems with dns

[swarrier]

Hello
   I've installed plan 9 a week ago on a PC. I have just tried to
configure DNS on the machine. I've been having problems with it.
My /lib/ndb/local is as follows.

#
#
database=
    file=/lib/ndb/local
    file=/lib/ndb/common

ipnet=nexabit ip=10.0.100.0 ipmask=255.0.0.0
    ipsubmask=255.255.254.0
    dns=10.0.100.165
    dnsdomain=nexabit.com


This is all there is in the /lib/ndb/local file.
My machine gets its IP address via a DHCP server. When I try to ping a
machine on our network using only it's name e.g.

term% ping charlotte

I get the error
"ping: couldn't dial: cs: dns: no transalation found(icmp!charlotte!1)"

However when I ping using the fully qualified domain name e.g.

term% ping charlotte.nexabit.com

it works well.

It looks like the DNS resolver is not using the suffix to translate
names.

Could somebody point out what could be the problem here. I have not
edited any other file in the system except the 'local' file.

Thanks

S


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Re: [9fans] Problems with dns

[presotto]

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ipnet=nexabit ip=10.0.0.0 ipsubmask=255.255.254.0
    dnsdomain=nexabit.com

ipnet=subnexabit ip=10.0.100.0 ipmask=255.255.254.0
    dns=10.0.100.165

You need a network description of the class A address
to define the submask to use with it.  The value of
ipnet= is not realy important since it's not used to
look anything up.

I guess I should write a how to document for this
cruft.

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From: swarrier@lucent.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Problems with dns
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:48:41 GMT
Message-ID: <918m3n$70g$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Hello
   I've installed plan 9 a week ago on a PC. I have just tried to
configure DNS on the machine. I've been having problems with it.
My /lib/ndb/local is as follows.

#
#
database=
    file=/lib/ndb/local
    file=/lib/ndb/common

ipnet=nexabit ip=10.0.100.0 ipmask=255.0.0.0
    ipsubmask=255.255.254.0
    dns=10.0.100.165
    dnsdomain=nexabit.com


This is all there is in the /lib/ndb/local file.
My machine gets its IP address via a DHCP server. When I try to ping a
machine on our network using only it's name e.g.

term% ping charlotte

I get the error
"ping: couldn't dial: cs: dns: no transalation found(icmp!charlotte!1)"

However when I ping using the fully qualified domain name e.g.

term% ping charlotte.nexabit.com

it works well.

It looks like the DNS resolver is not using the suffix to translate
names.

Could somebody point out what could be the problem here. I have not
edited any other file in the system except the 'local' file.

Thanks

S


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