John Speno posted this about a week ago. Anyone know whether the same
problem exists in 4.0E?
>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.
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