Package: dhis-server
Version: 5.2-2
Severity: normal
I've been suffering with wierd behaviour of dhis for some time, the
main symptom being that some clients seem unable to cause DNS updates,
despite being shown as up coming up in the dhisd.log.
Today I turned on verbose logging in dhisengine.pl (from Dan Mahoney
dated 9/25/2002) and it reveals that it's doing DNS updates for a host
that is comented out, and not bothering with the record that matches
the active client.
Here's the (slightly doctored) config file:
=-=-=-=-=-=-
;
; DHIS R5 Server Clients Database
;
; A sample DHIS database file for a DHIS server
; can be found in /usr/share/doc/dhis-server/examples.
;1000 {
; hostname testrig.dyn.hands.com
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; contact Philip Hands
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1001 {
; hostname sf.dyn.hands.com
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; contact Phil Hands
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
1002 {
hostname donlex.dyn.hands.com
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
contact Don
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
service dns
}
1003 {
hostname red.dyn.hands.com
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
contact Philip Hands
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
service dns
service relay
}
;1004 {
; hostname slc.dyn.hands.com
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; contact Philip Hands
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1005 {
; hostname pmhq.dyn.hands.com
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; contact Philip Hands
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1006 {
; hostname mw.dyn.hands.com
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; contact Philip Hands
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1007 {
; hostname pmpod.dyn.hands.com
; contact Philip Hands
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1008 {
; hostname djh.dyn.hands.com
; contact Philip Hands
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
1009 {
hostname simon.dyn.hands.com
contact Philip Hands
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
service dns
service relay
}
;1010 {
; hostname isd.dyn.hands.com
; contact Philip Hands
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
;1011 {
; hostname luke.dyn.hands.com
; contact Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; AuthN 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; service dns
;}
1012 {
hostname britcrop.dyn.hands.com
contact Philip Hands
authn 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
authn 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
authn 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
authn 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
service dns
service relay
}
=-=-=-=-=-=-
The client that was really logging on was 1003, but the DNS record that
was being updated with its address was djh.dyn.hands.com so at first
glance it would seem to be reading the commented lines for hostnames,
and using the last one it sees before the next uncommented section.
BTW before I doctored the file, the keys for 1003 and 1008 were different
(as were all the others from one another).
Having deleted all the comented sections, it's now working perfectly
again.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-free
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages dhis-server depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library
Versions of packages dhis-server recommends:
ii dhis-dns-engine 5.1-1 Dynamic Host Information System -
ii dhis-tools-dns 5.0-5 Dynamic Host Information System -
-- no debconf information
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
