Subj : Hello? To : Steve Quarrella From : Lawrence Garvin Date : Sat Oct 14 2000 06:54 am Steve Quarrella said in a message to Lawrence Garvin: SQ>> Having a fun time with Solaris 8 this afternoon. During the SQ>> install, nothing I did would convince it to like my DNS SQ>> information. All the servers and information were correct, SQ> As it turned out, I figured out the problem, but I don't understand SQ> WHY it was a problem. I needed to go put an A record into our SQ> in-house DNS server for my test machine. OK, fine, but what if I SQ> didn't have an in-house DNS server? Did I really have to call the SQ> folks who host our DNS and say "Give me an A record?" That can't SQ> be right at all, so what am I overlooking? When you configured your resolver (/etc/resolv.conf), did you identify the nameserver by name.. or by IP address? Or something similar.. essentially if you needed to add an 'A' record to the primary zone server, then "something" on the Solaris box was attempting to identify itself by -name- rather than -IP Address-. SQ> That's just fine. One of the things I've learned is that the 7 and SQ> 8 refers to 2.7 and 2.8. So, the 2.6 and earlier reference SQ> material that I have on hand has actually been useful. Wow!.. well -that- explains a lot. I have the "Solaris 7" CDROM that got from a free licensing program a couple of years ago (but never installed). I had -no- idea it was actually "Solaris 2.7". Guess that's what I get for leaving things sitting on the shelf, huh? :-) lg> Nonetheless, if there's anything I can offer to help.. fire a lg> message my way. SQ> Appreciate it. It's good to see you back, and I hope things are a SQ> bit nicer 'round 106 these days. :-) Well.. calmer, that's for sure. :-) SQ> Well now you're asking the tough questions. Where do I go to SQ> view that? For a guy who was pretty comfortable with command-line SQ> interfaces just a few years ago, I admit that I'm spoiled by the SQ> ol' Start button. But not too much. :-) If it's configured by default (and I can't remember if it is or not), the DNS Server should send status and error message to the 'syslog daemon', which, by default, writes it's logfile in /var/adm/syslog --- * Origin: lawrence@fido.eforest.net | The Enchanted Forest (1:106/6018) .