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rt 6.4A: named, named(8)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Dec 14 17:55:51 1989

Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 17:55:20 -0500
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name:		pit-manager
Type and version:	RTPC-ROMPC 6.4A
Display type:		apa16
			megapel
What were you trying to do?
	Put an SLOC entry for WEBSTER into /etc/named.local in order
	to override the system-wide hesiod information for that SLOC
	entry.

What's wrong:
	Rather than overriding the system-wide information, my
	/etc/named.local entry was accepted in _addition_ to the
	system-wide information.  This may be the "correct behavior"
	for the new version of named; however, it is _not_ how the old
	named behaved, and furthermore, there is _no_ explanation in
	named(8) of how to override the system-wide information with a
	local entry.

What should have happened:
	I am willing to believe that the behavior I observed is
	correct for the new named; however, named(8) should explain
	how to achieve the old behavior, because I really do need to
	override the system-wide information in order to do some
	debugging.

	I don't know, maybe the man page says it and I just didn't see
	it, but I don't think so....

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
	named(8)

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