Mac OS X 4.6.1 - follow up

Re: Mac OS X 4.6.1 - follow up

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On Mac OS X, the 'qdnscontrol' command was removed from versions 4.6
and later. Instead, the scripts in /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS
should be used - they are QuickDNS, named, qdnsc, and qdnsr. Each
script takes the following arguments: stop, start, or status.

We will update the knowledge base soon to include instructions for
removing QuickDNS 4.6.x from Mac OS X.

If you started with 10.3, installed from scratch, and then installed
QuickDNS for the first time, then you don't need to worry about the
/etc/named.conf problem.

Please execute the following command on the server:

tar czf ~/QuickDNS.data.tgz -C /var named

This will create an archive containing your data, in your home
folder. Please send the result to <mailto:support@menandmice.com> for
analysis.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 5:09 PM -0800 2/11/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>This computer was configured from scratch with 10.3 and then updated
>to 10.3.2 and then QDNS was installed for the first time.
>
>Which file do I need to swap into where? In my troubles yesterday,
>I did have to uninstall and reinstall and I was going back and forth
>between 4.6 and 4.6.1 at times trying to get everything working.
>
>PS. The support site doesn't appear to have any mac os x stuff
>after 3.5.1 for installing and uninstalling, plus all the commands
>for shell access were unrecognized.
>
>
>
>On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>>Updating from Mac OS X 10.2.x to 10.3.x causes an immediate
>>problem, where /etc/named.conf is replaced (with the QuickDNS
>>version stored in /etc/named.conf.applesaved). If you haven't yet
>>fixed this, you may need to do so - the QuickDNS update most likely
>>didn't fix it.
>>
>>If that's not the problem, please contact Men & Mice Support for assistance.
>><mailto:support@menandmice.com>
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
>>
>>At 10:36 AM -0800 2/11/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>>>Until I redo the primary dns server which is still 3.5.1 on Mac OS
>>>9, I'm using 2 different versions. I updated one domain in the
>>>primary and waited 20 minutes for the secondary to pick it up.
>>>The TTL was set to 400 and has been for a month.
>>>
>>>It never updated, so I clicked on the server name and clicked the
>>>reload option, which has always refreshed all the domains for me.
>>>As well as the individual domain reloads when I click that way.
>>>It still didn't update the one domain.
>>>
>>>I then clicked on the domain itself and clicked on reload, and it
>>>worked just fine.
>>>
>>>My question is, does the new version not reload all domains if I
>>>click on the server name and click reload? Maybe it's something
>>>with 10.3.2, as when I first installed it last friday, I started
>>>getting complaints from my users that they couldn't find the mail
>>>server. On monday, when I walked into a flurry of complaints
>>>about this sporadic problem, I focused on the fact that I had
>>>updated the dns server from 4.6 to 4.6.1. Sure enough, it wasn't
>>>answering outside requests. I reinstalled and same thing. I
>>>could get it to transfer the secondary zones, but not give answers
>>>to anyone requesting it. After much scrambling I deleted all the
>>>installs on this server that involved qdns and started from
>>>scratch with 4.6.1. Now it works, but I have this problem. I
>>>didn't have any problems with 4.6 on the exact same server setup.
>>
>>
>>
>Jody McAlister
>President
>In-Site Communications
>707-765-9993/800-998-1711

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