HIP DNS thread doesn't work on OS X

openhip implements the Host Identity Protocol

Status: Beta

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#29 HIP DNS thread doesn't work on OS X

Milestone: Mac OS X

Status: open-postponed

Owner: nobody

Labels: HIP daemon (45)

Priority: 3

Updated: 2009-05-12

Created: 2007-03-12

Creator: Tom Henderson

Private: No

the /etc/resolv.conf is populated with a nameserver entry for the HIP daemon, but attempts to ping to a "name.hip" fail with an "Unknown host" error.

Confirmed that this is OS X specific and not Linux.

Discussion

Jeff Ahrenholz - 2009-05-12

note that "nslookup server1.hip" works, but "ping server1.hip" does not work

if you first run "ssh server1.hip" then "ping server1.hip" will work, apparently because Mac OS X caches the name lookup (but it doesn't cache the nslookup name lookup); if you then type "sudo lookupd -flushcache" then "ping server1.hip" no longer works

so the DNS thread is working properly, but configuration of the Mac OS X resolver needs some additional tweak to get ping working properly (leaving this bug open)

tried adding an /etc/resolver/hip file but that didn't seem to help

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Jeff Ahrenholz - 2009-05-12

priority: 5 --> 3

status: open --> open-postponed
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