Now filed as bug 561299 Whats the easiest way to upgrade/downgrade bind and bind utils on Fedora and Centos?
Thanks Duncan > -----Original Message----- > From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] > Sent: 03 February 2010 15:59 > To: Duncan Berriman; bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > You might want to file a bug report with RedHat. > > I just looked through the notifications I got last year from RedHat > regarding various bug and security updates to the bind > packages and none > of them mention this change. > > Can others on the list verify the default (non-RedHat) bind-utils > package's host command should NOT resolve if server is > specified and the > specified server doesn't resolv? > > -----Original Message----- > From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] > On Behalf > Of Duncan Berriman > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:48 AM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > Whats odd is FC8,9 and 11 are ok. > > 10 uses 9.5.1 > Centos uses 9.3.6 > > It appears therefore that Redhat are somehow causing the issue when > building > certain versions. > > Thanks for your help proving what it is at least I can look > at upgrading > or > downgrading to solve the issue. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] > > Sent: 03 February 2010 15:37 > > To: Duncan Berriman; bind-users@lists.isc.org > > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > > > > Interesting. > > > > On checking a CentOS5 and a RHEL5 system I found I had > > bind-utils-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3 and running host with > specifying server > > did what it should (what you expected). > > > > I then updated the CentOS5 to bind-utils-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 > > and now have > > the issue you're talking about so it appears to be an issue with the > > 9.3.6 as released by RedHat (and Fedora - CentOS uses > RedHat sources). > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org > > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] > > On Behalf > > Of Duncan Berriman > > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:05 AM > > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > > Problem is I am specifying the server on the command line, it is > > supposed to > > use only that server, not randomly decide because it can't > connect to > > that > > server to try any others it feels like. > > > > Even the -s option makes no difference. > > > > It should even been looking at files or dns.... > > > > Duncan > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] > > > Sent: 03 February 2010 15:04 > > > To: Duncan Berriman; bind-users@lists.isc.org > > > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > > > > > > > rpm -qa |grep bind > > > > > > Will tell you all the BIND packages you have installed via RPM. > > > > > > The reason commands check resolv.conf in UNIX/Linux is > > > typically due to > > > how you've setup /etc/nsswitch.conf. A line is contained in > > > it similar > > > to the following: > > > hosts: files dns > > > > > > The above line says to first check files (/etc/hosts > > > typically) for the > > > name and if not found there then try to use dns (/etc/resolv.conf > > > defines settings for dns lookups). There are other options > > > for the file > > > such as nis which would say to look at nis. > > > > > > If you don't want to use dns for lookups you can remove > > "dns" from the > > > hosts line in nsswitch.conf. > > > > > > Note that lookup commands are often designed specifically for name > > > services so won't necessarily respond from /etc/hosts even if > > > the entry > > > is there. The way to verify it's reading /etc/hosts is to do > > > a ping on > > > it after the lookup. If the ping works and the lookup > > appeared not to > > > then it means it likely found the answer in /etc/hosts. > > (HP-UX is an > > > exception - their implementation of nslookup actually > > retruns entries > > > from /etc/hosts as well.) > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org > > > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] > > > On Behalf > > > Of Duncan Berriman > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:45 AM > > > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > > > Subject: RE: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > > > > # rpm -q -f `which host` > > > bind-utils-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 > > > > > > Thanks > > > Duncan > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzme...@nic.fr] > > > > Sent: 03 February 2010 13:12 > > > > To: Duncan Berriman > > > > Cc: 'Matus UHLAR - fantomas'; bind-users@lists.isc.org > > > > Subject: Re: Host/nslookup/dig queries wrong server > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:42:19AM -0000, > > > > Duncan Berriman <dun...@dcl.co.uk> wrote > > > > a message of 75 lines which said: > > > > > > > > > How do I check which one it is? 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