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Re: Trillian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun May 27 23:51:33 1990
From: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 27 May 90 23:50:09 -0400
To: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, ylsul@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Richard Basch's message of Sun, 27 May 90 18:08:23 -0400,
> Is there any reason why trillian doesn't have 127.0.0.1 in its
> resolv.conf?
Yes. Local name resolution doesn't work, and I don't consider it
worthwhile to track down the problem for a machine that is running
3-year-old software and will be de-commissioned very soon.
> In addition, I am not sure that strawb is capable of handling Hesiod
> requests, so you may find Hesiod resolves to fail (I am not positive
> of this).
I removed Straw from Trillian's resolv.conf.
> I would recommend having multiple hosts listed in resolv.conf in
> case one is down.
Done, on Trillian, Castor and the 3 Hesiod servers. They now each
point to 3 other servers on the same subnet.
Thanks for the suggestions.
