[3229] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Name resolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Dec 15 11:49:05 2000
To: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Cc: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 2000 11:49:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: Karl Ramm's message of "14 Dec 2000 22:30:50 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjm3dfp1vfd.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Yes, the DNS server is set by the bootdisk loader. It should only
be set it you're on net-18.
-derek
Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org> writes:
> 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.
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