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Re: Samba weirdness
From:
John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:43:12 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: 'John Burke'
> Subject: RE: Samba weirdness
>
>
> John,
> I got that message from Samba when I first set up the
> RESLVCNF.NET file,
> thus enabling DNS name resolution.  The problem, it turned
> out, was that the
> HOSTS file is no longer used, and our DNS server did not have
> a LOCALHOST
> entry.  Make sure you have a LOCALHOST entry with address 127.0.0.1.
>

Ah, he says, "they" were fiddling around with DNS last night and deleted the
localhost entry ("they" are M$ bigots and having localhost in DNS is not
necessary in a M$ network). Thanks, John, for pointing me in the right
direction.

Now, if you read my initial post, you are asking yourself why did Samba/iX
work on the other two systems? The answer is that one uses a HOSTS file and
not DNS and the other has the NSSWITCH beta patch installed and was able to
transparently use the HOSTS file when DNS failed on localhost. I knew it had
to be related to what "they" did since I am not a big believer in
coincidence but since I've been using Samba for over four years I'd
forgotten about the localhost issue.

John

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