DNS, named hands

DNS, solaris 8, running two years no issues
no-response to nslookup,
Check DNS server "/usr/sbin/in.named" is running.
9 min later nslookup starts working.
This happens every hour, over and over.

Originally Posted by admin_pcs
Did all that, ran through all the steps successfully and it still doesn't create that named.conf file. Any other thoughts? Still have the same error message when I try to run it.
You've also tried starting the novell-named service after reconfiguring? Essentially, the named.conf is generated and maintained bij the service... it's not a static config file in that sense.
If the hosts file is as it should be (never hurts to triple check), I'd try removing the DNS pattern (again using the OES Install & Configure), finish that...
Then, after the packages have been removed successfully, restart the OES Install & Configure reinstall the DNS pattern.
I might have missed it in the thread, but which version of OES is this (version + service pack level), and have you checked to make sure the online update repositories are there and functional? (for OES2 post the output of ' rug sl ' , ' rug ca ' & check if ' rug ref ' refreshes the repos without errors - for OES11 post the output of ' zypper sl ' , ' zypper ca ' , and check if ' zypper ref ' refreshes the repos without errors).
Also make sure the server is patched up correctly, to rule out you are not having issues here due to mismatching package versions.
-Willem

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DNS Named will not start

Here is my named log file error.
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.678 general: main: notice: starting BIND 9.3.2 -u named
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.694 general: dns/db: critical: Failed to load RRs of a zone with error 34826
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.694 general: dns/hints: warning: Loading Root data from directory Failed
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.695 general: server: info: loading configuration from '/etc/opt/novell/named/named.conf'
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.695 config: isccfg/parser: error: none:0: open: /etc/opt/novell/named/named.conf: file not found
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.698 general: server: critical: loading configuration: file not found
17-Jan-2013 14:43:32.698 general: server: critical: exiting (due to fatal error)
First was having problem CASA credentials but added them. Made sure the other things were running novell-xregd, they were. I found few older posts with the same error talking about the hosts file, checked it, I don't see anything wrong with it...as far as I can tell. Anyone have any suggestions that I could try. Thanks

Originally Posted by admin_pcs
Did all that, ran through all the steps successfully and it still doesn't create that named.conf file. Any other thoughts? Still have the same error message when I try to run it.
You've also tried starting the novell-named service after reconfiguring? Essentially, the named.conf is generated and maintained bij the service... it's not a static config file in that sense.
If the hosts file is as it should be (never hurts to triple check), I'd try removing the DNS pattern (again using the OES Install & Configure), finish that...
Then, after the packages have been removed successfully, restart the OES Install & Configure reinstall the DNS pattern.
I might have missed it in the thread, but which version of OES is this (version + service pack level), and have you checked to make sure the online update repositories are there and functional? (for OES2 post the output of ' rug sl ' , ' rug ca ' & check if ' rug ref ' refreshes the repos without errors - for OES11 post the output of ' zypper sl ' , ' zypper ca ' , and check if ' zypper ref ' refreshes the repos without errors).
Also make sure the server is patched up correctly, to rule out you are not having issues here due to mismatching package versions.
-Willem

DNS naming conventions?

I've got an XServe that I'm setting up to replace an aging Cobalt Raq server, which hosts about a dozen different domains, mostly mail and WWWeb hosting.
My 'main' domain is compusmiths.com, though it's currently on the RAQ. I've also got computersmithsconsulting.com, which is too long to use for everyday use, but could be used for administrative tasks.
I've got some static IPs in my new data center, and I've assigned one of them to the XServe.
I've got some DNS hosts registered at Network Solutions that both point to my single static IP. In this case, dns.geekho.com and dns2.geekho.com both point at 72.70.42.18
Now I'm getting confused with the server name, and what it should be, versus what it is, and how I should (have) set it up so that multiple domains can work off the same IP.
Because NetSol knows the machine as dns.geekho.com I've had my ISP set up the reverse DNS pointer to that name, as per the instructions I recieved from APP phone support, but I'm not sure that this is what I want to do.
What do I want the host(?) name of the machine to be? Should it be {server,dns,xserve,mail,www,ftp,etc,nothing} .computersmithsconsulting.com?
What happens when I add another virtual domain and want my user to be able to send and receive mail from mail.example.com? Since the reverse DNS pointer for mail.example.com points at something else, mail doesn't work, right? Do all my client domains have to use computersmithsconsulting.com as their mail server address?
Or am I missing something more fundamental? Is there a standard way of naming the server that doesn't cause problems later? Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any hints!

This sounds more like a DNS question.
So I'm guessing that you want to host every service possible on one Xserve. Putting all the eggs in one basket is not recommended - especially with DNS. But, let's continue.
When receiving mail, the server sending the mail won't check for reverse mapping of your domain and IP. You will be able to receive your mail fine.
It's the other way around. Reverse mapping is checked by the receiving server to see if it's from a blacklisted server.
You can name your host any name you like. You can leave the reverse DNS mapping settings with your ISP. But the most important host to reverse map is your mail host. This doesn't necessarily mean that reverse mappings have to point to mail.example.com. It just means that alias/forward/reverse DNS records have to make 2 steps forward, 1 step back.
mail.example.com -> xserve.example.com -> 72.70.42.18 -> xserve.example.com
Extended Keyboard Server Mac OS X (10.4.1)

DNS Server Having Intermittent Issues with Open Directory

I work for a school and we're undertaking the large task of moving from Xserves running 10.6.8 to Mac Minis running 10.9. I have a lot of experience with OS X Server (I held ACSA up until they ditched it, and ACTC through the current OS) but I've hit a fairly large snag in configuring our DNS server. We currently run DNS via an AD server that is being retired at the end of the summer, so this is the first time our DNS will be Mac-based. That said, our network is ridiculously simple as we are a very small school. For the most part it's a flat network using the same IP range for our wired and wireless internal clients (we do have a vlan for guests but that's through Aerohive). I configured the DNS by hand, recreating the entries in our AD server (there were only about a dozen) and then adding in things that should have been there in the first place (e.g. printers and some other devices with static IPs that I'd like FQDNs for). Everything seemed to be working fine...until trying to log into Open Directory accounts.
For some background, the DNS server running 10.9 was the first server we upgraded and it was a completely clean install. We run DHCP on another Mac Server currently running 10.6.8 and it does have the proper OD server listed. All DNS entries for the OD server match our current DNS server. The issue is that it's taking some users 5-6 tries to log in with their network accounts. The errors they receive range from the login window shaking to it stating the user cannot log in at this time. This seems to be worse on client machines running 10.9. but it's appearing on machines running 10.6.8-10.9.3.
In my troubleshooting, I found that if I log in as a local user to one of those machines and do a dig for the OD server the results vary, this is where it gets weird. For example, if I dig ourodserver.ourdomain.org it will sometimes return host not found or it will sometimes resolve. If I ping the same thing it will sometimes work (even after stating it cannot resolve the host) and it will sometimes fail. If I then try a dig for the .local (e.g. ourodserver.local) it also yields the same varied results. However, on every machine that I've tested if I then open a Finder window and navigate to the server via the "Shared" menu and connect I have no trouble connecting and then magically my digs and pings in terminal work. If I revert DNS back to point to our old Windows server the issue goes away. I have meticulously combed through that server many many times now and am not seeing any missed entries. Any idea what could be causing this?

You must have a working DNS service, and the server's hostname must match its fully-qualified domain name. To confirm, select the server by name in the sidebar of the Server application window, then select the Overview tab. Click the Edit button on the Host Name line. On the Accessing your Server sheet, Domain Name should be selected. Change the Host Name, if necessary. The server must have at least a three-level name (e.g. "server.yourdomain.com"), and the name must not be in the ".local" top-level domain, which is reserved for Bonjour.
The primary DNS server used by the server must be 127.0.0.1 (that is, itself) unless you're using another server for internal DNS. The only DNS server set on the clients should be the internal one, which they should get from DHCP if applicable.

XSAN-DNS problem

I can't be the only person in the world to hit this issue so I figure there must be a clever person out there who can help me fix it. I have posted this question into the General Mac troubleshooting area as well, but since it specifically pertains to XSAN, I am posting here too...
I have a Mac with two ethernet cards. The Mac is bound to a W2K3 AD and presents LAN services via one card (LAN IP in the 172.16.5.0 range). The other card is connected to a non-routed separate network used for Metadata (Private IP in the 172.16.80.0 range).
The Mac registers its forward lookup A record in the AD DNS twice, once with the wanted LAN IP address and once with the unwanted Metadata Private IP.
The Private IP address is not reachable by clients so I don't want it to register.
This is a major problem because the LAN network is not a single IP range, it is itself routed to other subnets (172.16.4.0 for example). Microsoft DNS always hands out IP addresses closes to the destination when it can. So clients in the same IP range as the LAN (172.16.5.x) get the correct IP address when they query, but clients in the 172.16.4.0 range, because of the round robin nature of AD DNS, are served out the wrong IP address 50% of the time (i.e. half the clients given the 172.16.5.x address and half given the 172.16.80.x address), those given the .80 address obviously fail to connect.
On Windows, it is possible in the GUI to specifically set a network card's properties not to register with the DNS. On the Mac this setting is absent in the GUI.
I assume there is a setting I can throw from terminal to block dynamic DNS registration for a specific ethernet card, whilst retaining it for the one I want. But I cant find it.
Can anybody point me in the correct direction please?

Thanks for your thoughts, Yeah, I tried that, I put in a search domain for that NIC which did not exist in DNS as a zone, thinking that even if it then tried to register, it would fail because the zone name didn't exist. Nada. Didnt work. It still stuck the second IP address into the DNS.
I have asked Apple for help under AppleCare Premium Support, but of course Apple caveat their support to avoid them having to look after 3rd party systems. Which is fair enough; but on the other hand is also not fair enough since I don't want support on Windows, Microsoft and the world at large provide a perfectly competent mechanism for that. I want support on Mac OSX, but since it pertains to a Mac "feature" that is connected with Windows, they have already told me they won't help.

Hands Off! application interferes with App Store

I had a problem for the last couple days logging in to the App Store. A call to AppleCare resulted in them having me start up in Safe Mode. In that condition, all was normal with the App Store but, when I restarted normally, although I was still logged in to the App Store, I could not update apps nor could I purchase new apps. When Iogged out, I was unable to log in again.
The folks at Apple had me try several other tests, too numerous to describe here and, ultimately, not germane to the solution.
Since I had recently installed a program named Hands Off!, I suspected it was the culprit. My suspicion was correct. If anyone is having similar problems and has Hands Off! installed, I suggest you go to the Hands Off! preferences and click on the "Disable rules" icon in the toolbar. That solved the problem for me.

Reset: Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Note: You will not lose any data

Common Area Phone with strict DNS rules in multi pool env.

Hi There,
As you know, CommonAreaPhones have the strict DNS rules: pool's FQDN's domain must be the same than phone's SIP address domain is.
In the DHCP we can set only one pool's FQDN, so does anybody have an idea how to get phones spread between two pools? I do not mean that each subnet have own dedicated configuration.
Pool's are of course internal, so they are having internal FQDNes. Currently the L2010 is faked on the DHCP as pool.company.com (as the SIP domain is company.com). But now on L2013 we have two pools waiting for the phones.
Petri

I don't think you'll have a problem. The strict DNS naming is more of a SRV/A record issue, which shouldn't pose a problem.
http://blog.schertz.name/2013/08/lync-phone-edition-cu7-registration-issues
And
http://blog.schertz.name/2010/12/configuring-lync-server-for-phone-edition-devices/
Edit to add proper credit to Jeff Schertz's incredible articles... I need to be better about giving credit where it's due rather than just posting blind links and trusting people will get it.
Please remember, if you see a post that helped you please click "Vote As Helpful" and if it answered your question please click "Mark As Answer".
SWC Unified Communications

Leopard Server Assistant and DNS Name

I am trying to setup Leopard Server in my home...
Server assistant launches I fill in the information and everything is fine... except I do not know what to put in the Server DNS name box. If I leave as is the server tools do not start because they cannot resolve the machine name.
In short what is going on...
1. How do you change the machine DNS name after server assistant has finished running?
2. What should I put in the DNS box?
MACServer.local? or MACSERVER
3. If I move to Dynamic DNS how do I change this later without having to re-install.
I have to admit that setting the server up, installing disks was easy but the DNS issue seems to be a real stumbling block for setting up a home server.
What am I doing wrong?
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Tony,
Thanks for the response.
My concern is that a normal home user will not be able to setup MAC Server 10.5 very easily without knowledge of DNS. (I will walk through a setup later on in the mail)
My point is that the average user will not be able to setup MAC Server. They will have difficulty filling out the setup wizard correctly - for this reason I cannot recommend it to a rookie. What is needed is a really simple setup scenario script that can be given to user so they can setup a MAC server in the home to support file sharing, intranet web browsing and time machine backups and central storage for users.
Don't get me wrong a MAC admin will find the changes in 10.5 a significant and fine improvement over past mac server setups and a leap frog over the Windows and Linux setup experience. Don't let anyone persuade you that Microsoft Home Server is a easy either. (Actually corrupts data with certain apps) - great testing Microsoft
Back to good software...
MAC Server Setup example: (Newbie the new IT for the household)
Prior to setting up the server Newbie will need to define his system setup...
i.e.
Server Name [email protected]
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Router: 192.168.0.1
Is the machine going to be a gateway or behind a firewall?
Will it distribute IP addresses for the home network etc?
These points are important as the DHCP and DNS go hand in hand. If the router is acting as a DNS relay and handing out IP addresses this may interfere with setting up the server to be primary DNS provider in the home.
Walkthrough 1: Scenario:
Setup the server to be a simple server with only file sharing, web server and time machine.
When asked Newbie enters:
Domain name: pkjserv.technophobic.com
Server Name:192.168.0.100 (DHCP) or manual
Nebie configures the server...
after setup the first thing that will happen is that Server Preferences will launch it will populate with the above server data...
Problem: Newbie trys to use server preferences and types in his password and fails to get access...
Why... because Server preferences expects "pkjserv.technophobic.com" to resolve but DNS is not setup yet...
OK so Newbie needs to setup DNS...
Newbie selects Applications/Server/Server Admin.app
(Newbie uses Magic to find Server Admin)
First prompt "Are you sure you want to use Server Admin?"
Newbie selects "Use Server Admin"
(Newbie uses Magic to know he has to do this)
Connect to server via IP address 168.192.0.100
Select DNS add click to box...
Expand 192.168.0.100 (our server)
Select DNS
Select zones...
Add primary zone / Select example.com
Change Primary zone to "technophobic.com."
Select "ns" and Change Nameserver to "pkjserv"
Under primary domain select machine change machine name to "pkjserv"
Select IP Addresses and change to 192.168.0.100
Click "save"
Newbie should have the following setup displayed:
Name Type Value
technophobic.com Primary Zone -
pkjserv Machine 192.168.0.100
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa Reverse Zone -
192.168.0.100 Reverse Mapping pkjserv.technophobic.com
------- Start DNS...
The problem here is that DNS is working but Newbies IP setup is still not referencing the DNS server so newbie will have to add it to the network settings.
Preferences / Network / advanced / DNS
once they have done this Newbie should be able to launch your browser and type "pkjserv.technophobic.com" and have it resolve to the web browser on the machine...
in short - this is difficult... hence my proposal that Apple need to create a simple setup scenario scripted document (fill in blanks) so a user can setup a MAC server in the home. Current docs do not allows an average user to install MAC OSX Server - I want a simple MAC Server that anyone can install...
Pete
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Child DNS Zone changing PTR record of OD Master

Grretings,
I am setting up a new OD master server for our school that will also host our DNS. Home folders will be on another server. I am using the DNS GUI for now. Setup master DNS zone of ourschool.lan. OD master has FQDN of admin.ourschool.lan with an IP address of 172.16.2.254. Forward and reverse lookups of OD master are great.
#host admin.ourschool.lan returns 172.16.2.254
#host 172.16.2.254 returns admin.ourschool.lan
When I go to set up a child zone, highschool.ourschool.lan, on this server I set the nameserver to ns1.highschool.ourschool.lan and IP address of 172.16.2.254, I have had the following happen:
#host admin.ourschool.lan returns 172.16.2.254
#host 172.16.2.254 returns ns1.highschool.ourschool.lan (not what I want!)
I understand forward and reverse lookups to OD master need to be rock solid. The changing of the PTR record is going to ruin this. Has anyone else seen this behavior. Should I just do the DNS through terminal and forget the GUI?
Thank you for any feedback. I searched this discussion list and didn't find anything similar to this in the postings.
Best Regards,
Steve
OS X Server and Client Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Your problem stems from the fact you're trying to create two separate A records for the same IP address.
The GUI will automatically create a reverse DNS entry for each a record. Since you have two A records that point to 172.16.2.254 that's where your problem lies.
Your solution is either to use a CNAME (or alias) for the second hostname (e.g. ns1.highschool.ourschool.lan CNAME admin.ourschool.lan), or manage the DNS by hand and don't use the GUI tools.

Error while attempting to save new zone entries into DNS

Some configuration data is invalid: The automatic client Bonjour browsing domain must either be a fully qualified domain name (it must end with a dot) or be @ (special symbol for the current domain).
mac mini
2.66
4gb memory
mac ox server 10.6.7 (build 10j869)
any ideas on how to save my entries?

I'm far from proficient in DNS, but I've been able to use the GUI for simple DNS configuration. If you provide info on what exactly you're trying to do, there are folks here who may be able to help you out. Have you successfuy configured DNS via the GUI in the past? If so, what are you trying to change? If not, what are you trying to accomplish?
If you're new at this altogether, you need to configure a zone - you'll want to name it with a domain that you've registered. If not, you can try using a "fake" domain. You're probably best off avoiding .local. .lan or .private would be better, but the cost of registering a domain is pretty cheap, so that would be the best bet. Once you have a domain, you need to name your server - this will give you a FQDN for your server - something like myserver.mydomain.something.
Here's one place to look for tips
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436
If you've set up DNS by hand, using the GUI tools can break stuff.
Jeff

What is DNS? How do I test it?

Well I have not configured DNS on Windows Operating Systems for a while, and, today I thought I would look up a tutorial and start practising. However, I am not sure how to create a DNS which I can 'lookup' through the internal network. My computers
are connected to a router which obviously has a public IP on the Internet and probably some internal IP assigned through the operating system, however I am not sure how to read it.
Through the DNS manager I created a primary DNS named theden.net.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Administrator>nslookup
Default Server: ns.melitacable.com
Address: 212.56.128.132
It would seem that the nameserver it uses belongs to the ISP, can I switch to using an internal nameserver for training or doesn't this idea make sense?

Please check this link
http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/DNS-best-practices-Making-AD-rock-solid
Best Regards, Dinesh Patil. MCP-Windows Server 2003 Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. If you satisfied with answer,please click on Proposed as answer key.

Network Not Fully Routed & DNS Resolution

I have a large domain with multiple sites, recently we have been bringing up new sites that are connected via VPN, unfortunately these are not fully routed to the other sites, and only have routes to the main hub data centre. We have been trialling RODC's
at these new sites due to the insecure nature of the server locations.
These have been adding new challenges with resolving our DNS domain name, the local DNS server hands back a list of servers that are authoritative for the domain, but due to the nature of the network routing the clients at these sites may only be able to reach
5% of the servers. This results in slow machine startup times, as an isolated event we could live with this, but we also use domain based DFS and this is also affected with very slow performance as the clients try to resolve the UNC
example: \\domain.local\Data1
Where domain.local resolves to 50 IP addresses, and only a small percentage can be reached.
We have been adding host files to the clients at these sites, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution to the issue, I'm sure that many people are in the same position and I think I may be missing something here.

hi,
For Branch office site where you have implemented RODC that site users will initially synch there password first time with RWDC. Once there password is cache users will be able to query and authenticate to local RODC. If users experiencing the
slowness while access the files in that case what is the bandwidth consume during that period. Also possible check the following ports are open
DC --> RODC
===========
TCP 135
TCP Static 53248
TCP 389               LDAP
RODC --> DC
===========
TCP 49152-65535             LSASS
2
TCP 57344                       DRSUAPI, LsaRpc, NetLgonR     3
TCP Static 53248              FrsRpc
1
TCP 135                          EPM
TCP 389                          LDAP
TCP 3268                        GC, LDAP
TCP 445                          DFS, LsaRpc, NbtSS, NetLogonR, SamR, SMB, SrvSvc
TCP 53                            DNS
TCP 88                            Kerberos
UDP 123                          NTP
UDP 389                          C-LDAP
UDP 53                           DNS
TCP 5722                        DFS-R
TCP and UDP 464             Kerberos Change/Set Password
you said you are making entries in host files for DNS name resolutions. go though below link and forum which will help you troubleshoot further.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/76e8654a-fbba-49af-b6d6-e8d9d127bf03/firewall-ports-for-rodcs-in-a-dmz-a-definitive-list
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728028(WS.10).aspx

NAS 4.0 evaluation version installation problem on SPARC/Solaris 2.8

Installing the NAS 4.0 that was bundled with a Sun SPARC/Solaris 2.8 throws
the following error:
( Installed with quick installation after correct installation of iWS 4.0,
from documentation Directory Server installed is not needed since NAS
installs its own)
In December of 1999, the Sun-Netscape Alliance announced
i P l a n e t A p p l i c a t i o n S e r v e r 6.0
* 100% J2EE compliant
* reliability and high availability for non-stop service required by
the Enterprise
* scalability to go the distance for unplanned success
* the best performance of any web application server
* broadest support of tools for J2EE application development
* high performance and complete solutions for internet enterprise
integration
Information and availability of this next generation application server
can be found at
Please enter the install location [usr/netscape/server4]:
Please enter the FULL PATH of the Web Server Instance to be used
for NAS:
/usr/netscape/server4/https-sofiana03.sofiana
Please enter the password for Netscape Directory Server Adminstrator
and Netscape Application Server Administrator.
The password needs to tb be at least 8 characters. [changeit]:
Installing Netscape core components
Installing Netscape Server Family Core Components
Installing Netscape Directory Suite
Installing Administration Services
Installing Netscape Application Server Suite
Starting the NAS install ...Installing Netscape Application Server 4.0
Core
Binaries
Extracting Netscape core components ...
Extracting Netscape Server Family Core Components ...
Extracting Netscape Core Java classes ...
Extracting Java Runtime Environment ...
Extracting Netscape Directory Server ...
Extracting Netscape Directory Server Console ...
Extracting Netscape Administration Server ...
Extracting Netscape Console ...
Extracting NAS Web Connector Component ...
Extracting NAS Core Server Component ...
Extracting NAS Administrator Component ...
Extracting NAS Deployment Manager ...
Extracting Netscape Application Server 4.0 Core Binaries ...
Fatal Slapd The required field AdminDomain is not present in the install
info fi
le.
Configuring Administration Server...
Your parameters are now entered into the Administration Server
database, and the Administration Server will be started.
Changing ownership to admin user root...
Setting up Admininistration Server Instance...
ERROR: Ldap authentication failed (151:Unknown error.)
Proceeding with installation of Netscape Application Server (NAS)...
Reading userinput log file ..... done
Configuring web server plugin
....../usr/netscape/server4/nas/bin/nas_postinstall
..ksh[49]: /usr/netscape/server4/https-sofiana03.sofiana/start.1007: cannot
creat
e
mv: cannot access /usr/netscape/server4/https-sofiana03.sofiana/start.1007
/usr/netscape/server4/nas/bin/nas_postinstall.ksh[188]:
/usr/netscape/server4/ht
tps-sofiana03.sofiana/config/.obj.conf: cannot create
mv: cannot access
/usr/netscape/server4/https-sofiana03.sofiana/config/.obj.conf
ERROR: Variable KIVAwebdocs was not defined. This command:
/usr/netscape/server4/nas/bin/.kconfns
/usr/netscape/server4/https-sofia
na03.sofiana /usr/netscape/server4/nas
did not set the DocRoot variable correctly.
Please make sure that this file exists and is executable:
/usr/netscape/server4/nas/bin/.kconfns
This NAS installation might not be succesful.
Please enter the WebServer docs directory pathname:
==>
What's WebServer docs? entered usr/netscape/server4/docs didn't help.
Thanks for the support
Pablo

hi,
Make sure that your network uses DNS naming.
This error occurs when a machine is not correctly configured to use DNS naming. The default fully qualified host and domain name presented during installation is not correct.
To successfully install, you need to provide a fully qualified domain name that consists of a local host name along with its domain name.
for example yoursystem is a host name and yourdomain.com is a fully qualified domain name.
regards,
saravanan

Weird siebel 8.0 console mode installation problem on OEL 4

Hi There,
When I tried to install Siebel 8.0 SIA build on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL 4), I encountered a weird problem. It is a sandbox for QA to do testing, everything is on the same machine: oracle database 10.2.0.3, gateway, siebel server and SWSE. I installed oracle database, and make sure the database connection is fine, then I did the following :
1) run install by command "./setuplinux -is:javaconsole -console", it compeleted fine.
2) go to gateway directory, source cfgenv.sh
3) run "ssincfgw -is:javaconsole -console" to do gateway server, enterprise and SWSE logical profile configuration. Gateway configuration is fine, gateway started up successfully. But during enterprise configuration, it throws out a bunch of error messages like :
Error creating Parameter:MaxEntrTasks for Comp:TxnProc in CompGroup:Remote
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
Error creating Parameter:MaxEntrTasks for Comp:RepAgent in CompGroup:Remote
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
Error creating Component:MsgBroadcastMgr in CompGroup:CommMgmt
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
SBL-ADM-02071: Enterprise server siebel not found in gateway server
But at the end, it still shows "Execution Successful!"
The SWSE logical profile configuration went through fine
4) go to siebel server directory and source cfgenv.sh
5) launch the ssincfgw in siebsrvr/bin directory to config siebel server, it also throws a bunch of error messages like:
Error creating Parameter:AllowAnonUsers for Comp:SMObjMgr_enu in CompGroup:MktgOM
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
Error creating Parameter:AllowAnonUsers for Comp:eMarketObjMgr_enu in CompGroup:MktgOM
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
Error creating Parameter:AllowAnonUsers for Comp:eEventsObjMgr_enu in CompGroup:MktgOM
Strict Flag set to FALSE, continuing with the next Object...
But again, at the end it still shows "Execution Successful!".
6) go to siebsrvr directory, source siebenv.sh
7) Launch srvrmgr in command line mode:
srvrmgr /g $GATEWAY /e $SIEBEL_ENTERPRISE /u $USERNAME /p $PASSWD
and it shows "connected to 0 server"
In the SiebSrvr.log file, it shows " SBL-SCC-00025: No value found in the Gateway. Default value in the repository is used."
In the sw_cfg_util.log file, it shows "SBL-SVR-03005: No server connect string for Siebel Component servermgr in Siebel Enterprise siebel, Siebel Server sdc60002sems".
The weirdest part is, if I clean up and uninstall everything, run the install and configure in GUI mode, give the same parameters, I don't get any error messages and siebel server can be up and running fine.
I searched the forum and found people have reported the same error message during enterprise configuration, but says it does not affect them from bring up the siebel server. Since I'm developing an automation to do the installation, I cannot use GUI mode to install. I have to make the command line console mode work and then record the response file for silent install. Does anyone know what might cause my siebel server fail to be up and running ? Thanks a lot for any suggestions and helps.

hi,
Make sure that your network uses DNS naming.
This error occurs when a machine is not correctly configured to use DNS naming. The default fully qualified host and domain name presented during installation is not correct.
To successfully install, you need to provide a fully qualified domain name that consists of a local host name along with its domain name.
for example yoursystem is a host name and yourdomain.com is a fully qualified domain name.
regards,
saravanan

Best practices of having a different external/internal domain

In the midst of migrating from a joint Windows/Mac server environment to a completely Apple one. Previously, DNS was hosted on the Windows machine using the companyname.local internal domain. When we set up the Apple server, our Apple contact created a new internal domain, called companyname.ltd. (Supposedly there was some conflict in having a 10.5 server be part of a .local domain - either way it was no worries either way.) Companyname.net is our website.
The goal now is to have the Leopard server run everything - DNS, Kerio mailserver, website, the works. In setting up the DNS on the Mac server this go around, we were advised to just use companyname.net as the internal domain name instead of .ltd or .local or something like that. I happen to like having a separate local domain just for clarity's sake - users know if they are internal/external, but supposedly the Kerio setup would respond much better to just the one companyname.net.
So after all that - what's the best practice of what I should do? Is it ok to have companyname.net be the local domain, even when companyname.net is also the address to our external website? Or should the local domain be something different from that public URL? Or does it really not matter one way or the other? I've been running companyname.net as the local domain for a week or so now with pretty much no issues, I'd just hate to hit a point where something breaks long term because of an initial setup mixup.
Thanks in advance for any advice you all can offer!

Part of this is personal preference, but there are some technical elements to it, too.
You may find that your decision is swayed by the number of mobile users in your network. If your internal machines are all stationary then it doesn't matter if they're configured for companyname.local (or any other internal-only domain), but if you're a mobile user (e.g. on a laptop that you take to/from work/home/clients/starbucks, etc.) then you'll find it a huge PITA to have to reconfigure things like your mail client to get mail from mail.companyname.local when you're in the office but mail.companyname.net when you're outside.
For this reason we opted to use the same domain name internally as well as externally. Everyone can set their mail client (and other apps) to use one hostname and DNS controls where they go - e.g. if they're in the office or on VPN, the office DNS server hands out the internal address of the mail server, but if they're remote they get the public address.
For the most part, users don't know the difference - most of them wouldn't know how to tell anyway - and using one domain name puts the onus on the network administrator to make sure it's correct which IMHO certainly raises the chance of it working correctly when compared to hoping/expecting/praying that all company employees understand your network and know which server name to use when.
Now one of the downsides of this is that you need to maintain two copies of your companyname.net domain zone data - one for the internal view and one for external (but that's not much more effort than maintaining companyname.net and companyname.local) and make sure you edit the right one.
It also means you cannot use Apple's Server Admin to manage your DNS on a single machine - Server Admin only understands one view (either internal or external, but not both at the same time). If you have two DNS servers (one for public use and one for internal-only use) then that's not so much of an issue.
Of course, you can always drive DNS manually by editing the zone files directly.

DNS, named hands

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