On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:31:51PM +1100, Alasdair Reed wrote:
> 1. How would you make use of the information from the ISP ?

Put their nameservers in "/etc/resolv.conff".

> 2. How do you get the system resolver to behave in this way? 
> 
> Also I imagine that to do the above (#2), named has to be working properly 
> on your system at present I am getting the error messages as follows:
> 
> localhost named [271] could not configure root hosts from 'root cache':file
> >not found
> >local host named [271]loading config file : file not found
> >local host named [271] exiting due to fatal error
> 
> Matthias suggested I debug named, I tried this using the command
> 
> named -d 1

Try this:

named -g -d 3 -u named -t /var/chroot/named

If you still can't find out why it can't find the configuration files
on your system try this:

ktrace -o /tmp/ktrace.out named -g -d 3 -u named -t /var/chroot/named

Wait until it complains about missing configuration files, kill it and
look at the output with "ktruss -f /tmp/ktrace.out".

> however it did not seem to write a log file in  /var/tmp

I can find anything in the documentation of named(8) which would sugggest
that it should do that.

	Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/