Subj : Hello?
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Mon Oct 16 2000 06:00 am

 lg> When you configured your resolver (/etc/resolv.conf), did you
 lg> identify the nameserver by name.. or by IP address?

IP address.

 lg> Or something similar.. essentially if you needed to add an
 lg> 'A' record to the primary zone server, then "something" on
 lg> the Solaris box was attempting to identify itself by -name-
 lg> rather than -IP Address-.

Certainly a possibility, given that I was prompted for host information during 
the installation procedure.   My question would be "Why does this need to 
happen?"  I mean, it's not like we're authenticating to a domain or something.

 SQ>> That's just fine.  One of the things I've learned is that
 SQ>> the 7 and 8 refers to 2.7 and 2.8.  So, the 2.6 and earlier
 SQ>> reference material that I have on hand has actually been
 SQ>> useful.
 lg> Wow!.. well -that- explains a lot.

Least I can do is exchange a little bit of wisdom for that which I'm receiving 
here. :-)

 lg> I have the "Solaris 7" CDROM that got from a free licensing program a 
couple of
 lg> years ago (but never installed). I had -no- idea it was
 lg> actually "Solaris 2.7" .

I HAD kinda wondered "Gee, why'd they leap from 2 to 8 so quickly."

 lg> If it's configured by default (and I can't remember if it is
 lg> or not), the DNS Server should send status and error message
 lg> to the 'syslog daemon', which, by default, writes it's
 lg> logfile in /var/adm/syslog

Will take a look and report back if I see anything out of the ordinary.  
Thanks!

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