gjmwalsh

Thanks for the reassurance on that one, and for seeing me through this. I take some pleasure in the much simpler physical setup and can now get on with my psych project which is really what I am all about. And now I have a completely Mandriva system. If I could, I would shake your hand for your help. George

Appreciate your guidance, VERY much. I used your template to rework the zone file in place of the Mandriva one. In summary, it now looks like this (with dscdirectionalservices abbreviated to dsc) dsc.com. IN NS ns1.dsc.com. ns1.dsc.com. IN NS 192.168.1.65 dsc.com. IN A 192.168.1.65 mail.dsc.com. IN A 192.168.1.65 dsc.com. IN MX 5 mail.dsc.com. www.dsc.com. IN CMAME dsc.com. dig shows the MX record pointing to www.dscdirectionalservices.com on the internet. email is now working. Only the 1 nic card runs from the 2WIRE gateway. /etc/hosts still shows 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and 192.168.1.65 www.dscdirectionalservices.com www sendmail parsing is also running: ie my email address shows as gjwalsh@dscdirectionalservices.com. My concern is with the 192.168.1.65. This is the IP masquerading via the 2WIRE of our public static IP address. It won't change, of course, but I am concerned about the 192.168.1.65 changing without my being aware and bringing the system down. In the past, I had control of /etc/resolv.conf and ran everything with 2 nic cards, one to the internet and the other the local lan which provide the ns1 and mx functionality. Now, 2WIRE overwites it. Maybe this is okay .. I'm just a little nervous about it. Seems shaky to me although it DOES work, thanks to your help in cleaning out the cobwebs of confusion in my head.

Well, one problem was that Drakwizard, in generating /etc/named.conf, neglected to include the include line for etc/rndc.key. That taken care of, it created the 2 required zone files and altered /etc/hosts. So is that wrong too? What I really want out of all this is simply an MX record I can reach for sendmail's use. Having extra nics and no other computers i used them to set up static ips of 192.168.2.1 which Drakwizard made use of, and then I manually added the MX and PTR records for mail.

The top line of the /etc/named.conf file is missing .... I've been fighting this nonsense myself. Add the line: include "/etc/rndc.key" Then run: service named start (or restart) If that fails, reboot and then run service named status and you should be up and running.

Thanks for showing interest in my plight! I made one change: in /etc/hosts I have changed www from the nat'd address 192.168.1.64 to the actual IP 142.179.103.0 and for the moment I have removed the mx address as well to 'keep it simple' Rebooted .... /var/log/messages shows bind being started, and listening to 127.0.0.1 and eth0 on 192.168.1.64, both via port #53 zones are accessed and then named reports 'invalid command from 127.0.01"59234: bad auth What can I do about named not recognizing local host? drakwizard would not begin to set up dns until I had explicitly set the host name! dig does return the correct records for the directionalservices.com domain BUT the rndc status (or service named status) still sing the old refrain, even though there is now a /var/lib/named/var/run/named.pid file with the same pid# as outputted from running 'ps -ef | grep named'.

This is my final attempt to make use of Mandriva's named server. I am thoroughly confused as to whether the thing is really running or not. The system in outline: Server connected to the internet via 2WIRE with NAT firewalling. nmap clearly shows ports 53 and 953 are both open. The following changes were made in the Mandriva distributed files: /etc/named.conf: the Primary and Secondary DNS addresses from my provider were shown as forwarders. In the zone files: db.dscdirectionalservices.com.hosts: Inserted 2 lines - IN MX !0 mailx.dscdirectionalservices.com. AND mailx.dscdirectionalservices.com IN A 192.168.1.100 db.1.168.92.hosts: Added: 100 IN PTR mailx.dscdirectionalservices.com. /etc/hosts reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.64 www.dscdirectionalservices.com www (the NAT assigned by 2WIRE for the actual IP) 192.168.1.100 mailx.dscdirectionalservices.com mailx ifconfig -a reports both eth0 and eth1 as being UP with their correct addresses. To simplify things, I have removed shorewall, iptables, ipset, mandi and mandi-ifw while I troubleshoot this. I question the need for them with the 2WIRE in any case. Now the mystery: service named status returns: rndc: connection to remote host closed ps -ef " grep named returns: (pid) 4579 named -u named -t /var/lib/named BUT running find for "*named.pid" returns nothing. FURTHERMORE: Running /etc/rc/d/init.d/named status returns -: the same error as for service named status (above) Running /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop also returns -: the same error Running /etc/rc.d/init.dnamed start returns -: already running Is it, and if so what would it be called???? I have tried for days to make this work. The only part of Mandriva I have never been able to get to function at all. I have been able to build DNS from tarball without problems and just didn't want to give up on this without a final fight. By the way, I have been using Mandriva for 5 years now .... I show as 'new' because I periodically change my emailaddress to reduce the load on spamassassin.

For the past 5 years my server has been connected to the 'net with a D-Link modem. No problems until it died. The telco immediately replaced it with a 2WIRE 2700HG-E. And I have been frustrated ever since. My research on the net confirms that anything other than 1 host confuses the 'thing'. So I have connection through DHCP, and firewalling (NAT) in place. What I used to do was establish a lan for dns and mx services with Mandriva's 'named' . But that does not seem to allow the mail to 'get through'. Has anyone else experienced this? I've hit all manner of complexity - split dns, bridging (connecting the local ethernet card to the 2WiIRE) but that simple action causes all manner of problems at that end! This just has to be too simple for me to understand!!! Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.

I have regularly installed PHP5 without difficulty, along with mysql and apache2. In performing an upgrade, i notice that it cannot llocate a bunch of modules (ie HOST-RESOURCES-TYPE). Presumable some directory locations have been changed. I have tries using both php.ini-dist and php.ini-recommended but both react the same way when copied into /etc/php.ini. The only changes I routinely make in the .ini file are to turn the short_open_tag to off for portability, change the include path to ".:/usr/lib/php5/" and the extension_dir equate to: /usr/lib/php5/extensions.

I was about to purchase an epson 2580 but noticed it is not certified on the Mandrake hardware list. However, the 3170 is, although it is harder to find one locally. Does anyone have any experience using an epson with ocr (gocr, gocr-gtk)? I need to capture 3/400 pages of our internal C code over time, all lasr-printed with the standard 8lpi 'line-printer' font. I'm not concerned about capturing photos, graphic images etc - epson has always delivered top quality.

If you do: tree /etc/httpd, you'll see all the files laid out for you. Actually, there are 2 files in the distro, one with and one without perl. You'll see them at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2-perl.conf, and /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf. George