Ideas to debug...

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:47, Jonathan Villa wrote:
> Setup: Red Hat 8.0 machines.
> 
> I had one machine running an RPM install of BIND and it worked fine...
> 
> I decided to move my name servers from machine a to machine b where I
> was going to install BIND from source...
> 
> I copied my named.conf over to the new machine as well as everything in
> /var/named/ on machine a to /usr/local/named on machine b.  This
> includes 2 dirs...
> 
> I then uninstalled the RPMs from machine a and started up named on
> machine b.
> 
> 
> Everything works great... the only issue is this...
> 
> On machine A (which ran name servers originally) the hostname was
> Polycarp. and on the new name servers, the hostname was origen. 
> 
> So, I changed the hostnames (/etc/sysconfig/network) modified my zone
> file (for both the external view and the internal view) and restarted
> the machines...
> 
> So, now for my problem... If I log into either polycarp or origen and
> ping what the old hostname was, I get 127.0.0.1 when I should be getting
> the new address....
> 
> Any ideas?

My first guess would be your /etc/hosts file. Do you have your hostname
on the same line as 127.0.0.1?

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Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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