[3227] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Name resolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Dec 14 22:30:54 2000
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 14 Dec 2000 22:30:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:21:54 -0500"
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If it's not to hard to make it do so, the install should probably not let
the nameserver be changed, on the argument that if you can't get to the w20
network you're not going to get the rpms anyway.
Hmm, that gets set by the loader, doesn't it...
kcr
Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Linux-dev: It looks like the installer messed up, and didn't give us
> > enough of the hostname in the body of the mail. This seems like a bug
> > we should be able to fix.
>
> I believe what must have happened is that he specified a name server in
> LCS that knew the abbreviated form for his machine's name. If that's
> the case, I can generalize the script to deal with this with a couple of
> hours work, plus a re-install for testing. However, it might be easier
> just to request in the documentation that users leave the nameserver
> pointed to w20ns in the initial part of the install. Does that sound
> reasonable to people?
>
> Alex.
