[1300] in Moira
Re: Fwd: moira burp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Dec 3 19:05:07 1999
Message-Id: <199912040005.TAA14872@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Christopher A Mceniry <cmceniry@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, rccsuper@MIT.EDU, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 18:55:44 EST."
<199912032355.SAA26508@MINSTREL.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 19:05:02 -0500
> Oh, that's cute. I think what happened was in the canonicalizing of
> the name. The system is a new installed 6.1(using gbritton's Athena
> RPMs), and I hadn't configured everything on it yet. When I did the
> name change, it was still set up as localhost.localdomain and
> resolve.conf pointed back to 127.0.0.1 The hostname effectively gets
> quoted when passed back from the name resolver, right? Anyways, it's
> just an guess...
resolve.conf is only used for DNS and is independent of /etc/hosts.
It's possible for this to have been the failure, but I'm not sure why
vysslynn would resolve to localhost.localdomain, unless they both
appeared in the same /etc/hosts entry or something.
> What I don't follow is why it never appeared in the DNS, even as the
> alias. Any ideas?
Because the cannonical name was not in the mit.edu domain, is was
intentionally ommited by moira when generating the host table for the
name servers.
> I've updated the moira record to point to the correct name
> (vysslynn.mit.edu), and I'm leaving "localhost.localdomain" for you
> guys to deal with as you see fit.
OK, sounds like you're all set then.
Jonathon
