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At 6:06 PM +0100 1/8/02, Mauro Ferrari wrote:
>Works fine now. Thanks!
>The problem was due to Tenon iTools with their bind who probably
>overwrote QDNS installation.

Not terribly surprising.

>Now that it works, I see in the logs that QDNS listens on all IP's
>(multihoming with 2 ethernet cards) the server is running. I would
>like that QDNS listens only on 1 IP, or at least on those running on
>the external card.
>Is this posssible, and how to?

Yes, it is possible, though it's not easy. You have to edit a text
file; this text file is only writable using the root account, so
you'll have to edit it as root. The file is
'/var/named/conf/options'. You'll need to add the following statement
to this file:

listen-on { 5.6.7.8; };

You can put more than one IP address in there, and even subnets (i.e.
"5.6/16"). Just put a ";" after every item in the list.

To edit the file, you can do either of the following:

- Enable the root account, log in as root, and use BBEdit Lite.
- Use the command "sudo pico /var/named/conf/options" in a Terminal window.

There are obviously other methods, too, but they are variations on
one of these two themes.

After you've made the change, you'll need to make the 'named' process
notice the changes. One way to do this is with this command (in a
Terminal window):

sudo ndc -c /var/run/qdns reload
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

>>At 12:30 PM +0100 1/5/02, Mauro Ferrari wrote:
>>>1. Installed QDNS on OSX, but I can't get any statistics: "Error
>>>reading statistics". Also, I see ServerType "Bind", Protocole
>>>version "3.8", Operating system "Unix". Am I connected to QDNS or
>>>"MacOSX Bind"?
>>
>>The "error reading statistics" problem generally is caused by the
>>name server not running. Keep in mind, when you connect with
>>Manager, you're connecting to QujickDNS Remote, not to the actual
>>DNS server software.
>>
>>To solve this problem, check the server log (in QuickDNS Manager)
>>and also look in "/var/log/system.log" for errors related to the
>>"named" process. There's probably some error causing it to fail as
>>it starts up.
>>
>>The Mac OS X version of QuickDNS Server is reported as Bind, since
>>it's based on Bind 8.2.x.
>>
>>>2. Would should be done to desactivate "MacOSX Bind" to use QDNS only?
>>
>>No need. The installer does this for you, if you're using Mac OS X
>>Server. If you're using Mac OS X, unless you've installed Bind
>>separately, there is no version of Bind installed until QuickDNS
>>Server is installed.
>>
>>>and 3. How do I uninstall QDNS 3.5 for OSX?
>>
>>Removing QuickDNS Server for Mac OS X currently involves some
>>manual effort. Open a Terminal window and enter the following
>>commands from the prompt. You must have supervisor privileges to
>>remove the software:
>>
>>1. Remove the startup script from the startup items folder:
>> % sudo rm -rf /System/Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS
>>
>>2. Remove the receipt for the QuickDNS 3.5 installer:
>> % sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/QuickDNS_3.5.pkg
>>
>>3. Remove qdnsd (QuickDNS Daemon), qdnsr (QuickDNS Remote) and
>>qdnscontrol (the control script for QuickDNS):
>> % sudo rm /usr/sbin/qdns*
>>
>>4. Remove the DNS server (named) installed by the QuickDNS 3.5 installer:
>> % sudo rm /usr/sbin/named
>>
>>5. Remove the zone transfer utility (named-xfer) installed by the
>>QuickDNS 3.5 installer:
>> % sudo rm /usr/libexec/named-xfer
>>
>>6. Remove zone and configuration directory for named
>> % sudo rm -rf /var/named
>>
>>7. Remove the initial configuration file for named:
>> % sudo rm /etc/named.conf
>>____________________________________________________________________
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>>support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

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