While you may have a philosophical objection to the localhost entry in your
DNS table, I think more of us are interested in having our systems work than
in conforming to the world that we wish existed. When the NSSWITCH patch is
in general release, order will be restored to the universe.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Waroff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Samba weirdness
localhost is a "me" pointer, and should not be in DNS.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Burke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Samba weirdness
>
>
> > -----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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