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Re: Only some IPs accessable?

Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: Only some IPs accessable?
References (3 earlier) <2hpim8x384.ln2@news.roaima.co.uk> <j7a8ah$86p$1@dont-email.me> <pan.2011.10.15.09.46.32.921842@deadspam.com> <87ty7av2ar.fld@apaflo.com> <slrnj9jdqt.1bk.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>
From floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson)
Organization __________
Date 2011-10-15 08:50 -0800
Message-ID <87lismurkn.fld@apaflo.com> (permalink)

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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>On Sat, 2011-10-15, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
>>
>> That should not happen.  This quote is from the
>> RESOLV.CONF(5) man page:
>...
>> The gist is that there is no point in listing more than
>> 3 name servers.  But in any event the first one is the
>> only one that will ever be queried if the first query is
>> successful,
>
>Where "successful" includes "you got a response, and it said there is
>no such name in DNS".
>
>> which also assumes that either there is no
>> local DNS server or that it has failed.
>
>What do you mean here?  As far as I can tell, resolv.conf is used even
>if there is a local name server running.

From the text of the  man page as quoted in my previous article:

  "On a normally configured system this file should not
  be necessary.  The only name server to be queried will
  be on the local machine; [...]"

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson                <http://www.apaflo.com/>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)              floyd@apaflo.com

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Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-07 22:42 +0200
  Re: Only some IPs accessable? Frank Boehm <fraboehm@gmx.de> - 2011-10-08 07:39 +0000
  Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-08 14:24 +0100
    Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net> - 2011-10-08 23:18 +0700
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-08 21:29 +0100
    Re: Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-12 15:09 +0200
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2011-10-12 17:24 +0200
        Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 10:55 +0100
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-12 22:22 +0200
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 11:01 +0100
        Re: Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-14 23:00 +0200
          Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-15 11:46 +0200
            Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 04:59 -0800
              Re: Only some IPs accessable? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-15 16:39 +0000
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 08:50 -0800
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-15 16:58 +0000
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-10-15 19:07 +0100
              Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-15 19:50 +0200
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 12:30 -0800
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2011-10-19 18:14 +0200

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