HP-OV and BIND
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Aug 14 20:50:47 UTC 2002
Fran <fjre30 at lycos.es> wrote:
> Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote in message news:<ajbmf5$5ihi$1 at isrv4.isc.org>...
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm running HP-Open View application over a HP K-260 whith HP-UX 11.0.
>> > I have BIND 8.3.1 running in this box like secondary DNS.
>> >
>> > HP-OV is having problems whith the inverse resolution because it can't
>> > find out the name asociated to the ip address of the event that is
>> > received.
>> >
>> > If I perform a nslookup <name> or nslookup <ip-address> the DNS works
>> > perfectly. But HP-OV doesn't work fine because it can resolve the name
>> > but it can't find out what name is associated to an ip address.
>> >
>> > I only have this message in syslog.log file:
>> >
>> > syslog: gethostbyaddr: name.domain. != 172.22.62.5
>> >
>> > Does anybody know where is the problem ?
>>
>> Yes. The forward and reverse data don't match.
>>
>> 5.62.22.172.in-addr.arpa => name.domain
>> name.domain does not have a A record with 172.22.62.5
>> Mark
>>
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
> Ok Mark, but ...
> Three months ago I had the same machine whith HP-UX 10.20 and HP-OV
> 5.1. The version of BIND was 4.x. The data BIND files are the same
> that I had in the box with the old version of BIND. And all of them
> worked quite fine. HP-OV could resolve names and ip address whithout
> any problem.
> But now, the SO can resolve the name and the ip address correctly (
> whith nslookup) but not HP-OV. If I insert the ip address in /etc/host
> file there is no problem and HP-OV shows me the events it receives
> with de correct source ( my nsswitch.conf file is pointing first to
> files,DNS ).
> The problem happens when HP-OV tries to work whith the DNS, and I
> don't know why.
What does the nameserver say in it's logfile ?
> Does anybody know how I can trace the requests HP-OV performs to BIND
> ?
querylog the nameserver, ethereal , tcpdump is 3 suggestions ( i'd
suggest ethereal )
If the nameserver is local to OV you might have to install one
on another box & change /etc/resolv.conf :-(
> Thanks.
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Peter Håkanson
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