[Server-devel] resolv.conf

[Henry Edward Hardy]

Wad,

If you are pointing to localhost in resolv.conf, will there be at least a
caching DNS named server to catch it?

--HH

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:

>
> I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly.
>
> For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly
> on first boot (even though the files were in the right places).
> In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the
> LAN port, nothing was happening.
>
> What worried me in addition to the above was that DNS had completely
> broken.
> Any DNS queries on the server (host/dig/nslookup), such as
> "schoolserver",
> were hanging.  But queries directed to the DNS server on localhost
> were just fine.
>
> The answer is that /etc/resolv.conf should probably point to localhost,
> not the address of one of the interfaces (172.18.0.1).   Just in case...
>
> I'll git the change after a suitable comment period.
>
> Second install went like a breeze,
> wad
>
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