[Server-devel] resolv.conf

[John Watlington]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is
> responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config
> will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time
> (and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).

I'll try to see if I can figure out why it crashed --- but it created  
the network
config files fine before crashing, if it did...

>> 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...
>
> Does BIND listen on localhost? If so, it's a good idea...

It most certainly does!

> cheers,
> m
>
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