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Re: dns problem resolution?

From: Jim Cobb
Date: Friday, November 5, 2004
Time: 11:55:11 am

never mind, went away with reinstall of SDK

Jim

On Nov 5, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:

> As previously mentioned on the list (in response to this post on
> MacFixit), QuickDNS doesn't use this boot script. Instead, edit the
> PARAMS line near the top of this file:
> =A0 /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS/named
>
> The line loos like this:
>
> PARAMS=3D""
>
> Change it to:
>
> PARAMS=3D"-4"
>
> It has also been reported that the -4 command line option for named is

> only available with BIND 9.3.0 and later, and doesn't (shouldn't) work

> with BIND 9.2.3.
>
> Chris Buxton
> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>
> At 10:46 AM +0100 11/5/04, Thomas Carpentier wrote:
> A fix from a macfixit reader Ken. I tried the fix and it seems I have

> a better connectivity with Safari, but not completeley resolved
> (Safari can't connect to some sites on the first try, but less than
> without the fix).
> I am running QuickDNS 4.6.1 and Bind 9.2.3 on Jaguar 10.2.8
>
>
> "I found that a very simple fix (if you don't mind editing OS config

> files) was to modify the /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND file

> to add the '-4' option to named, which forces it to only use IPV4. For

> example, the first part of the file normally looks like this:
>
> =A0StartService ()
> =A0{
> =A0if [ "${DNSSERVER:=3D-NO-}" =3D "-YES-" ]; then
> =A0ConsoleMessage "Starting named"
> =A0named
> =A0fi
> =A0}
>
>
>
> I changed the above to:
>
> StartService ()
> =A0{
> =A0if [ "${DNSSERVER:=3D-NO-}" =3D "-YES-" ]; then
> =A0ConsoleMessage "Starting named"
> =A0named -4
> =A0fi
> =A0}
>
> Source: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=3D20041101075016967
>

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