Loaded, but not

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dpv9ll$2ouo$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Tuc at T-B-O-H <ml at t-b-o-h.net> 
wrote:

> 	Ok. And it looks like that if I do an nslookup for it, it
> resolves it... But if I do other things that should be resolving it, it
> doesn't.  
> 
> 	Like right now (I'm not where I can use the 192.X.X) if I do a "w",
> I get :
> 
> soekris# time w
> 10:20PM  up 3 days, 12:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.27, 0.13, 0.10
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> tuc              p0       10.2.0.1          1:11AM     - w
> 0.016u 0.024s 0:00.04 75.0%     20+345k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 
> 	If I load the zone :
> 
> zone "0.2.10.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "master/db.10.2.0";
> }
> 
> ;
> ;SOA Record
> ;
> 0.2.10.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA soekris.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com. 
> postmaster.soekris.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com.  (
>         2006010506      ; Serial
>         10800           ; Refresh after 3 hours
>         3600            ; Retry after 1 hour
>         86400   ; Expire after 1 day
>         86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
> ;
> ; NS Records
> ;
> 0.2.10.in-addr.arpa.            IN NS soekris.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com.
> ;
> ; PTR
> ;
> 1.0.2.10.in-addr.arpa.          IN PTR vjofnvpn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com.
> 2.0.2.10.in-addr.arpa.          IN PTR soekrisvpn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com.
> 
> 
> Jan  9 22:22:31 soekris named[24539]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/namedb/named.conf'
> Jan  9 22:22:31 soekris named[24539]: master/db.10.2.0:4: no TTL specified; 
> using SOA MINTTL instead
> Jan  9 22:22:31 soekris named[24539]: zone 0.2.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded 
> serial 2006010506
> 
> 
> soekris# time w
> 10:22PM  up 3 days, 12:55, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> tuc              p0       10.2.0.1          1:11AM     - w
> 0.007u 0.038s 0:08.45 0.3%      110+670k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 
>    It seems to take longer, but still isn't seeming to resolve.

You need to logout and log back in.  The reverse lookup is done by the 
telnet or ssh server when you login, not by the "w" command.  Since the 
reverse zone was loaded after you logged in, it was too late.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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