On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Martin Langhoff<martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> Any ideas on what's broken? Where should I begin to look? > > BIND on the XS is trying to perform DNS lookups against the root > servers. That'll work from your home connection, but may be blocked in > the uni network. When the XS gets the DHCP lease, it probably also > gets the IP addresses of the local network servers, and then > dutifully... ignores them :-/ > > The solution is to set a 'forwarders' entry in /etc/named/named-xs.conf > > Ideally, we should rig our dhcp client with a hook that reads the > nameservers provided by the server, update named-xs.conf, restart > named. Wad mentioned once that Debian has a package with such a > script. > > Does that help? > > cheers, > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >
So, I tried this out on xs-0.6d yum updated with enablerepo=olpcxs-testing Added forwarders to /etc/named-xs.conf like such options { ... ... forwarders { 130.212.10.163; 130.212.10.162;}; forward only; }; and it works like a charm! 130.212.10.163 and 130.212.10.162 are our campus DNS servers. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel