At 8:54 PM -0400 6/29/97, Ken Nakata wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm not positive what's wrong here, but I'll give it a shot anyway...
>
>On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:22:39 -0400,
>Jesse Swensen <jrs@pagesz.net> wrote:
>> I am trying to get named running.  I get a couple of things I am unsure of
>>
>> When netbsd first starts up I get:
>>
>> configuring network interfaces:ae0.
>> writing to routing socket: File exists
>> add host minimac: gateway localhost: File exists
>
>Looks like you have minimac set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts file?

The contents of my hosts file is:
127.0.0.1		localhost
192.168.0.1		minimac



>> I then look at /var/log/messages which says:
>>
>> Jun 29 19:27:20 minimac named[84]: starting.  named 4.9.5-P1
>> Jun 29 19:27:21 minimac named[84]: primary zone "" loaded (serial
>>1997062901)
>
>This looks suspicious.  Why zone name is empty?  What are the
>"primary" lines in your named.boot file?

named.boot looks like:

; directory in which other files are found

directory	/etc/namedb

;type		domain				source file
;--------	----------			----------------
 primary	.				swensen.root

 primary	0.0.127.in-addr.arpa		swensen.local

 primary	swensen.net			swensen.hosts
 primary	0.168.192.in-addr.arpa		swensen.hosts.rev



>
>> Then when I "nslookup minimac" I get the following:
>>
>> Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1:Non-existent host/domain
>> Default servers are not available.
>
>Probably because minimac has the IP address 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.
>You should list minimac as 192.168.0.1 in it...
>
>Ken