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Conference lassie::ucx

Title:DEC TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Notice:Note 2-SSB Kits, 3-FT Kits, 4-Patch Info, 7-QAR System
Moderator:ucxaxp.ucx.lkg.dec.com::TIBBERT
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5568
Total number of notes:21492

5153.0. "Editing UCX configuration files by hand?" by tennis.ivo.dec.com::KAM (AltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133) Wed Jan 22 1997 19:06

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5153.1Do NOT edit UCX database files.CSC32::R_WILLIAMSWed Jan 22 1997 16:155
5153.2tennis.ivo.dec.com::KAMAltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133Wed Jan 22 1997 22:2912
5153.3CSC32::R_WILLIAMSWed Jan 22 1997 19:344
5153.4UCXAXP::KIMMELThu Jan 23 1997 17:137
5153.5tennis.ivo.dec.com::KAMAltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133Thu Jan 23 1997 23:0395
    My question is:
    
    pg. 4-8 of the manual indicates:
    "BIND and MX records for the domain mynode.owl.rok.com are extracted,
    converted, and written to MYNODE_OWL_ROK.DB.  The BIND Server can
    perform forward translation for hosts in this domain."
    
    The customer's domain was harris_lab.lnk.com so the file created was
    HARRIS_LAB_LNK.DB. Since then they have changed the domain to
    lnk.harris.com.  Do they need to create a DB file with LNK_HARRIS.DB or
    will it continute to use HARRIS_LAB_LNK.DB????
    
    Will this cause mail to be rejected?  We cannot get mail to be relayed
    off the Firewall to the Mail Server, this VAX running UCX.
    
    NSLOOKUP MX LNK.HARRIS.COM from the Firewall indicates:
    
    
c:\etc>nslookup mx lnk.harris.com

Error 0
Server:  vax2.lnk.harris.com
Address:  10.1.0.22

res_mkquery(0, mx.lnk.harris.com, 1, 1)
------------
SendRequest(), len 35
    HEADER:
	opcode = QUERY, id = 2, rcode = NOERROR
	header flags:  query, want recursion
	questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 0,  additional = 0

    QUESTIONS:
	mx.lnk.harris.com, type = A, class = IN

------------
------------
Got answer (115 bytes):
    HEADER:
	opcode = QUERY, id = 2, rcode = NXDOMAIN
	header flags:  response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail.
	questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 1,  additional = 0

    QUESTIONS:
	mx.lnk.harris.com, type = A, class = IN
    AUTHORITY RECORDS:
    ->  LNK.HARRIS.COM
	type = SOA, class = IN, dlen = 54
	ttl = 43200 (12 hours)
	origin = vax2.lnk.harris.com
	mail addr = postmaster.vax2.lnk.harris.com
	serial = 2
	refresh = 3600 (1 hour)
	retry   = 300 (5 mins)
	expire  = 172800 (2 days)
	minimum ttl = 43200 (12 hours)

------------
res_mkquery(0, mx.harris.com, 1, 1)
------------
SendRequest(), len 31
    HEADER:
	opcode = QUERY, id = 3, rcode = NOERROR
	header flags:  query, want recursion
	questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 0,  additional = 0

    QUESTIONS:
	mx.harris.com, type = A, class = IN

------------
------------
Got answer (94 bytes):
    HEADER:
	opcode = QUERY, id = 3, rcode = NXDOMAIN
	header flags:  response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail.
	questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 1,  additional = 0

    QUESTIONS:
	mx.harris.com, type = A, class = IN
    AUTHORITY RECORDS:
    ->  harris.com
	type = SOA, class = IN, dlen = 41
	ttl = 3600 (1 hour)
	origin = suc1a.harris.com
	mail addr = postmaster.harris.com
	serial = 9701101
	refresh = 3600 (1 hour)
	retry   = 300 (5 mins)
	expire  = 1800000 (20 days 20 hours)
	minimum ttl = 3600 (1 hour)

    
    Regards,
     
    
5153.6SOA means something completely different in dutchUTRTSC::KNOPPERSOswald KnoppersFri Jan 24 1997 02:438
The bind db files can be edited. The names of these files are not relevant.
But usually they take the form subdom_subdom_topdom.db. What matters is the
bind configuration (UCX SHOW CONFIG BIND), this is how the bind server
knows for which domains it is authoritative. So if they have changed the
domain name, they will need to reconfigure the bind config. Also the SOA
records in the db files need to be changed.

Oswald