SUMMARY: loghost and libresolv of bind 4.9.5

Tony C. Wu (tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:41:47 +0800 (CST)

Hi,

I commented every line that says LOGHOST in the /etc/syslog.conf and added
a CNAME loghost to localhost in the zone data file. The syslog is back to
operation now.

Thanks to the following ppl who replied.

From: Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services
<Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>
From: Chris Staunton <opti@pcez.net>
From: Stefan <s.voss@terradata.de>

Regards,
Tony C. Wu

--
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

Original Questions:

> > Hi there, > > We have a standalone sun sparc running 4.1.3_U1 here. We aint running > NIS. For the sake of sendmail 8.8.5 installation, I've replaced the > original libresolv with the bind 4.9.5's. Everything works fine except > syslog, coz it can't resolve loghost. According to the manual, bind's > libresolv doesnt consult /etc/hosts at all. I've tried to add loghost to > every zone file of every domain, but it still doesnt work. Can anyone please > point me a direction ?! > > Thanks in advance for your helps, I'll summarize. > Tony C. Wu > -- > "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein > >