This is a SUMMARY without a question.
I got a copy of patch kit #3 for 4.0d the other day and had a chance to
test it out on a fresh install of 4.0d.
I installed everything that would install on my system (no LSM or ATM
stuff), and found that host name lookups were failing for applications such
as ping, ftp, telnet, while nslookup didn't have any problems with the same
host names.
It seems this new kit attempts to implement stricter host name checking as
was done in BIND a few years ago, i.e. valid host names may contain a-z, A-Z,
0-9 and hyphens.
If you have bind listed first for host name lookups in your /etc/svc.conf
file, and patch kit #3, your host name lookups will fail, even for valid
hosts with valid names. It may happen regardless of the order for host
lookups in svc.conf - I didn't test all configs.
Compaq now has a patch for the patch.
To get this patch, you should call the CSD and refernce the "DNS/BIND"
patch for patch kit #3 on Digital Unix 4.0d.
I'm curious to hear from other folks had this same problem with patch kit
#3.
Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 22:23:23 NZDT