Search Again: Re: Mac OS X 4.6.1 - follow up oops, sorry. From: Jody McAlister Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004 Time: 9:57:53 am sorry about that, I meant to send it to their support and not the list. My apologies, still morning for me. On Feb 11, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > 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 > > > Jody McAlister President In-Site Communications 707-765-9993/800-998-1711

Messages In This Thread: Re: Mac OS X 4.6.1 - follow up oops, sorry. by Jody McAlister on Feb 12, 2004 at 9:57:53 am