Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-20 Thread Jim Durham
Bjorn Danielsson wrote: > > Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 3.3 Box is a local server on a disconnected LAN talking > > to a "remote" server that spools mail, which is grabbed by > > fetchmail. We are running PPP on-demand to the external > > server via a dial-up to an ISP. However,

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-18 Thread Jim Durham
Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jim Durham wrote: > > > The 3.3 Box is a local server on a disconnected LAN talking > > to a "remote" server that spools mail, which is grabbed by > > fetchmail. We are running PPP on-demand to the external > > server via a dial-up to an ISP. However,

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-17 Thread Ben Smithurst
Jim Durham wrote: > Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the > first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this > because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily > runs. I put it back every day, and the next day, it was gone again. > > I hunted quite a while i

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-17 Thread Don Read
On 17-Dec-99 Jim Durham wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: >> >> > Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the >> > first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this >> > because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily >> > runs. I put it back every day, and the next day,

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:36:41PM -0500, Jim Durham wrote: > I posted this to -questions, but didn't really > get any answer that seemed to fit, so I thought > I would ask here. > > On a 3.3-RELEASE box, not realizing at first that > I didn't need an entry for the local nameserver, I > had it's

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-17 Thread Bjorn Danielsson
Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 3.3 Box is a local server on a disconnected LAN talking > to a "remote" server that spools mail, which is grabbed by > fetchmail. We are running PPP on-demand to the external > server via a dial-up to an ISP. However, PPP only holds the > line up from 8a

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Nowlin
> > > Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying > > > resolv.conf? Is this a security feature? Ran into a similar "what's changing this file?" problem a while ago -- fstat(1) is your friend... #!/bin/sh while true do fstat /etc/resolv.conf >> /fstatlogfile done Throw that int

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-16 Thread Jim Durham
Mike Smith wrote: > > > Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the > > first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this > > because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily > > runs. I put it back every day, and the next day, it was gone again. > > > > I hunted qu

Re: Resolv.conf question

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
> Something in the daily scripts seemed to eliminate the > first line, containing the local nameserver. I say this > because the file date was 1:59am, the time that periodic/daily > runs. I put it back every day, and the next day, it was gone again. > > I hunted quite a while in the scripts, but c

Resolv.conf question

1999-12-16 Thread Jim Durham
I posted this to -questions, but didn't really get any answer that seemed to fit, so I thought I would ask here. On a 3.3-RELEASE box, not realizing at first that I didn't need an entry for the local nameserver, I had it's IP in as the first line in resolv.conf, followed by two more nameservers o