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[webmin-l] I have been told there are problems with webmin.com DNS records

[Robert M. <rg...@ht...>]

I am at IETF and have had problems accessing the webmin website.

The helpdesk did a DNS DIG and found 5 DNS records, one of which is 
bad.  If you get it you can't get to the webmin site.

So can someone check into this?

Re: [webmin-l] I have been told there are problems with webmin.com DNSrecords

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 17/Nov/2008 22:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote ..
> I am at IETF and have had problems accessing the webmin website.
> 
> The helpdesk did a DNS DIG and found 5 DNS records, one of which is 
> bad.  If you get it you can't get to the webmin site.
> 
> So can someone check into this?

I did notice that one nameserver (pridns.pacific.net.au) was no longer
responding for the webmin.com, so I have taken it out of the NS list.
Although I thought DNS clients would try the other nameservers if one
was not responding..

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-l] I have been told there are problems with webmin.com DNSrecords

[Robert M. <rg...@ht...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 17/Nov/2008 22:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote ..
>   
>> I am at IETF and have had problems accessing the webmin website.
>>
>> The helpdesk did a DNS DIG and found 5 DNS records, one of which is 
>> bad.  If you get it you can't get to the webmin site.
>>
>> So can someone check into this?
>>     
>
> I did notice that one nameserver (pridns.pacific.net.au) was no longer
> responding for the webmin.com, so I have taken it out of the NS list.
> Although I thought DNS clients would try the other nameservers if one
> was not responding..
I think it has to do with how the responder presents information to the 
app, and what the app does with the list. I am on Centos 5.2 running 
Firefox 3.0.4.

Thanks for fixing this.

[webmin-l] Webmin and /etc/hosts

[Mark K. <MK...@ps...>]

Ladies and Gentlemen:
                  I know that Webmin looks to the /etc/hosts file for validation when adding new systems. Is there a way to have it read from separate file called /etc/hosts-webmin?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Mark K.

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Re: [webmin-l] Webmin and /etc/hosts

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 18/Nov/2008 09:31 Mark Khan wrote ..
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>                   I know that Webmin looks to the /etc/hosts file for validation
> when adding new systems. Is there a way to have it read from separate file called
> /etc/hosts-webmin?
> 
> Your help is greatly appreciated!

Not really .. actually, Webmin doesn't read this file directly at all, except
in the Network Configuration module where you can edit it. Instead, it calls
standard perl/C library functions like gethostbyname, which are pretty much
hard-coded to read /etc/hosts.

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-l] I have been told there are problems with webmin.comDNSrecords

[Dave O. <da...@sy...>]

> 
> I did notice that one nameserver (pridns.pacific.net.au) was 
> no longer responding for the webmin.com, so I have taken it 
> out of the NS list.
> Although I thought DNS clients would try the other 
> nameservers if one was not responding..
> 
>  - Jamie
> 

Not Windows.  Seems that once if finds a DNS server it likes, it just flat
won't let go of it.