Ideas to debug...

[Jonathan Villa]

Your first guess was correct!!! thanks!!!

I changed everything else, but never changed the hosts file...

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:25, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> 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?