[18236] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.11: M56 DNS settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Sep 7 00:37:19 2000
To: Jesse N Pavel <jpavel@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 07 Sep 2000 00:37:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: Jesse N Pavel's message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:01:59 -0400"
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<jpavel@MIT.EDU> (Jesse N Pavel) writes:
> What were you trying to do?
> Resolve certain hostnames, such as welcome.fleet.com
>
>
> What's wrong:
> The machines in M56 (and perhaps more; I'm not sure) have only
> 127.0.0.1 in the resolv.conf file.
That's valid; Athena workstations normally run caching nameservers to
reduce the load on the standard MIT nameservers. The real question is
why *those* weren't running -- some new exploit, perhaps?
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
