[ILUG] bind on laptops with scattered connectivity

[Brendan Kehoe]

Thanks for your suggestions!  It turns out what I needed was this pair 
of entries in /etc/named.conf:

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
         type master;
         file "domains/127.0.0";
};
zone "localhost" {
         type master;
         file "domains/127.0.0";
};

I already had the former entry (it's also in the DNS-HOWTO), but not the 
latter.

My 127.0.0 now has:

@       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
                                       1997022700 ; Serial
                                       28800      ; Refresh
                                       14400      ; Retry
                                       3600000    ; Expire
                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
               IN      NS      localhost.
1       IN      PTR     localhost.

to avoid any attempts to look anything else up (like linux.host. or my 
network.home.).

Anyway, with these tweaks, the problem seems solved.  Before, emacs and 
other programs would freeze up doing a lookup to try to use how my 
DISPLAY was defined; now the delay's gone, and it gets an immediate 
answer back from named on my box.

Oh, I believe I'm running the bind that's in RH6.2, though I am using 
glibc 2.1.2 instead of glibc 2.1.3.

I'm going to give Mandrake 7.1 a try, but otherwise don't feel drawn to 
a 6.2 upgrade yet since things otherwise are working fine, having 
already gone through the necessary tweaks.  Now I'm just waiting for 
RH7.2 or 7.3 before I try it (or fall in love with Mandrake).

All the best,
B

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Brendan Kehoe

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