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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!news.utdallas.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: NetBSD 0.9 - Name resolution .. Message-ID: <5OCT93.12155195@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 12:15:51 GMT Lines: 24 1) The default netstart file has a line : route add $hostname localhost. The hostname is read from myname (which is setup during installation) and is in the form hostname.domainname, so the command fails. I have replaced it with - route add `hostname -s localhost' 2) When i have a resolv.conf in the /etc, the machine does not read the /etc/hosts file and is unable to resolve local names. I do not know if this is a libresolv problem, but if is, i do not know what hacks are required to make resolv+ compile on netbsd. 3) YPbind is unable to find a server on the domain, though there is one up and running, serving several other machines, all of which run fine. 4) This is not a strictly name resolution problem: the ICMP responses are funny, whenever i ping any other machine (wherever), i get a lot of duplicate ICMP packets. When i ping the machine from other machines, they get duplicate responses too. Sometimes this is as high as 100% duplication or more. What are the reasons for/solutions to the above problems? thanx bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in