Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:34 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
> I have a static IP, and with the DSL modem set to "pass through" mode,
> my linux "crate" is doing everything... and blowing up. Been working
> rock solid, went through the update, a report is made about something
> missing and I go into scattered chickens mode becauce weird stuff is
> happening, like the domainname being added as an alias to localhost
> minutes after I fix it.
I did lookup on your hostname and got an IP but a reverse lookup on that
IP gives adsl-070-145-234-214.sip.int.bellsouth.net. I wonder if the
problem arises because the forward and reverses conflict, and perhaps
one of the configuration programs is "fixing" it for you?
I believe I am OK now, If you would try that again to see what pops up,
I'd appreciate it. I am back on my static IP, it's resolving quickly and
seems to be at full speed.
It's brute force but you could try "chattr" to make your hosts file
immutable.
I'm afraid to touch it, now that it's working. If it wasn't the bind
packages, then using the FC6 setup* rpms must have done the trick. Ric
Just a WAG but it appears that one of the rpms in the latest batch of
updates does something really strange with /etc/hosts. I updated my FC5
box yesterday and /etc/hosts now looks like:
[dave@spindle ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
192.168.255.254 mutilate.local.davenjudy.org mutilate
127.0.0.1 spindle.local.davenjudy.org spindle
localhost.localdomain localhost
The first line is my NIS server so luckily the update didn't mess with
that. I can't imagine any circumstances under which I would modify the
127.0.0.1 entry to look like the above. At least I didn't run into the
problem of the bogus line being "sticky". I still don't have an answer
to that problem.
Also, looking at what logwatch reports, I noticed the following:
Packages Erased:
bind-config
Another WAG but it appears to have been replaced by:
Packages Installed:
sane-backends-libs.i386 1.0.18-2.fc5
kernel.i686 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5
caching-nameserver.i386 30:9.3.2-33.fc5 <-- This
libgconf-java.i386 2.12.4-2.fc5
Cheers,
Dave
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