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[Brett David Rosen] wierd name resolution bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Mon May 18 15:15:39 1998
To: network@MIT.EDU
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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:15:28 EDT
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
FYI. Athena 8.2 doesn't like noc.
danw@gnomon:~> finger broken@noc
unknown host: noc
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
Subject: wierd name resolution bug
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:28:03 EDT
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
If I use nslookup or hostinfo to resolve noc.mit.edu,
it works fine. If I use host from the consult locker it gives me:
noc.MIT.EDU CNAME WHOS_THERE.MIT.EDU
WHOS_THERE.MIT.EDU A 18.100.0.50
!!! WHOS_THERE.MIT.EDU A record has illegal name
Exit 69
If I use dig from the watchmaker locker it also works fine.
However, utilities like finger, ping, telnet etc all fail
with errors like:
unknown host noc
or
Host name lookup failure
This is with the Solaris 2.6 named running. I'd try it with the
BIND 8 named, but it doesn't appear to be on the alpha packs yet.
Brett
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