[ale] named q, debian man prob

[Jacob Langseth]

First question regards named.  I haven't been able to find any documentation
regarding this particular error message, so I'm hoping someone here has
seen it before:

Jan 14 21:11:26 gateway named[88]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN)
	on 155.229.1.69.50.229.155.in-addr.arpa?
Jan 14 21:11:26 gateway named[88]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN)
	on 155.229.1.69.esisys.com?

named version:
Jan 14 19:35:46 gateway named[87]: starting.  named 4.9.6-REL
	Sat Jul 19 17:44:35 ED T 1997
	^Iroot at netgod:/u1/debian/bind/bind-4.9.6/named

It started when I upgraded our linux server from an old (1.5 years+)
slackware system to Debian 1.3.1.  I've compared the two systems
named configuration files repeatedly but can't seem to find anything
amiss.

Could it be simply that this is what 4.9.6-REL logs when an application
attempts a gethostbyname( "155.229.1.69" ) (in which case I'd like to
filter the error message if at all possible), or is it indeed a configuration
error?


The second question regards the man command under Debian.  It hasn't
worked on a single debian system I've installed since 1.3 was released.
I haven't been more aggressive in tracking down the problem because I
have a shell script which emulates man quite nicely, but I'd like to fix
the problem if it's at all possible.

All installations have gone cleanly and have started from scratch.

Symptoms:

(21:59:56) musashi at gateway:~$ man ls
Reformatting ls(1), please wait...

	[waits here until killed with ^C, after which this file remains in /tmp:]

-rw-r--r--   1 musashi  users       11488 Jan 14 22:01 /tmp/zman00687aaa

Process list as it sits in la-la land:

    USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT STAT  START   TIME
root       102  0.1  4.1  1032   464  ?  S     19:35   0:09 
/usr/local/sbin/sshd
root       530  0.1  7.1  1068   800  ?  S     21:19   0:04  \_ 
/usr/local/sbin/sshd
musashi    532  0.0  8.9  1644  1008  p0 S     21:19   0:01  |   \_ -bash
man        687  0.9  4.0  1228   452  p0 S     22:01   0:00  |       \_ man ls
man        692  0.5  3.5  1160   400  p0 S N   22:01   0:00  |           \_ 
gzip -c7
musashi    690  1.6  0.0     0     0  p0 Z     22:01   0:00  |           \_ (sh 
<zombie>)
musashi    691  1.5  6.7  1552   756  p0 S     22:01   0:00  |           \_ sh 
-c { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ls(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page 
$MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%.."; /usr/bin/less; 
}
musashi    695  0.5  3.9  1120   440  p0 T     22:01   0:00  |               \_ 
/usr/bin/less

Any insight is greatly appreciated...
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Jacob Langseth <jlangseth at esisys.com>
CTI Engineer -- Enhanced Systems, Inc.