I looked for more old host and nsupdate executables but found none. So, I tried the last resort and deinstalled bind95 and verified that /bin/host disappeared. I assume all the other new programs did also.
The configurationwas left the way I originally set it which was all the defaults plus the flag to replace the base system. make install clean For some crazy reason, it now all works. I know I didn't just forget to install it because /usr/sbin/named -v showed bind9.5.1P2. It's creation time was the same as /bin/host and nsupdate. It is said that lunacy is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. Actually appearing to get them is also crazy.:-) Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I am truly baffled. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users