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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 04:21:36 -0500 To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> Some of you may have noticed that "attach sipb" on Linux will sometimes attach /afs/athena/contrib/sipb rather than /afs/sipb/project/sipb. This is very annoying, since /mit/sipb/linuxbin is not replicated in the athena cell. This is happening because of a change in the "named" program in bind-4.9.3-BETA9. (Specifically, the version of "named" used by Slackware 2.1.0.) When this named looks up a name and gets multiple records in response, it cycles the order of the records. (The idea is that if a hostname has multiple I.P. addresses, it will not always list the same address first.) This is a problem when a hesiod entry has multiple records, and the order of these records is important. (Like "hesinfo sipb filsys".) I've looked at the named source, and I think I've managed to fix it so that it doesn't cycle the records if the lookup is of the hesiod class. (If I ever actually get named to build successfully, I'll know for sure.) In the meantime, there are lots of workarounds, like getting an older version of named without this cool new feature, or using a non-local nameserver, or simply detaching and re-attaching sipb until it gets it right. Watch this space for an announcement of a named for Linux that works better with hesiod. Have a nice day. -Sal.
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