FW: What is the difference between Ver. 4 and Ver. 8?

[Michael Voight]

There isn't enough information to determine what the BIND 4 problem is.
You said you configured BIND 8 on a Linux machine and it worked.
How does this explain a problem with BIND 4 on an AIX machine??

This requires general troubleshooting of the BIND 4 system.
On the BIND 4 system, do the following.

nslookup 

at the prompt, do:

set d2 
set all
ls -d <domain name>

At the nslookup prompt, do you get the correct server name and ip?
d2 will show the question asked. Is it correct?
set all will show the search list. Is it correct?

Look at /etc/resolv.conf.. Does it contain a nameserver at 127.0.0.1.
AIX doesn't like 127.0.0.1. Do not put a nameserver directive or use
0.0.0.0.

Does the ls show the records?

Michael 

Michael Voight
CSE IV, Cisco TAC


Chris Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> 2nd posting-Can anyone help
> 
> Chris Zimmerman
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Zimmerman
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:21 AM
> > To:   BIND Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject:      What is the difference between Ver. 4 and Ver. 8?
> >
> > Please forgive my ignorance, but I have recently run into an issue with
> > BIND 4.x.x (AIX 4.2.1), where I am more familiar with BIND 8.x.x.  My
> > problem is this:  we have an internal DNS server for hostname resolution
> > running on AIX 4.2.1.  I have been trying to send e-mail between systems
> > internally (UNIX to UNIX, or NT to UNIX), but I have been unable as
> > sendmail has been complaining of a "Hostname Lookup Failure."  After
> > conversing with the sendmail folks for a few days, I decided to try
> > running BIND 8.2.2 patch 5 on my local Linux machine, import enough DNS
> > information to make it functional for email between 2 systems, then try to
> > send mail.  As soon as I started BIND locally, even the queued messages
> > from previous attempts were delivered.  What I would like to know is what
> > is different about 8 that is preventing 4 from working?
> >
> > One thing that did arise during the troubleshooting was that the internal
> > DNS is giving non-authoritative answers for everything.  To see if it was
> > a config issue with the named.boot, I tried the script that converts the
> > named.boot to the named.conf, and then restarted my local DNS-everything
> > still worked.  We are looking to upgrade to BIND 8, but I will not only
> > need some solid reasons for doing so, but I need to see if I can fix the
> > BIND 4 on the AIX machine until this upgrade can be completed.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Chris Zimmerman