On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:42 PM, David Stodolsky wrote:
Reinstalling was the only way out. According to Support, Open
Directory is populated with crap during a Standard Install, if the
DNS name is off. And even if that could be fixed, it would still
take a lot of time on the command line to fix the DNS and make sure
everything else was right.
So a re-install isn't the only way out, just perhaps what was easier
for you.
changeip -checkhostname
What I want to know is why did "host" and this give an all clear and
then a lookup from a client showed a faulty nameserver entry. It was
still "ns" even though that had been replaced in Server Admin.
`host` isn't a valid test of much at all. It doesn't even properly
test DNS, dig does. host tests resolution through the library calls
but that includes much more than DNS.
Please reread qualifications in order to avoid foot-in-mouth
disease;-)
Comments put like that really make people want to rush to help you
-dhan
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Dan Shoop
Computer Scientist
iWiring / U.S. Technical Services
