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Title: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: Scott on October 01, 2003, 05:52:42 AM

Hi all,

I installed the public dns contrib and
it caused some kind of a problem
that won't let me create virtual domains.
I also get file not found when I
enter server manager. So I have
to do the fix from the command line
as I keep getting software errors.

Can anyone help me with a how to
uninstall the public dns contrib?

Thanks.

Question:

If I uninstall bind and reinstall it,
will this basically set the named.conf
directories back to their non public dns
settings?

Maybe I'll just try it.

Scott

Title: Re: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: Guck Puppy on October 01, 2003, 06:04:19 AM

This is for 5.6?

G

Title: Re: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: Scott on October 01, 2003, 06:35:47 AM

Guck Puppy wrote:
>
> This is for 5.6?
>
> G

Yes,

I have done some changes and I am getting the
following error message when I attempt to change
the dns settings back to self:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /server-manager/cgi-bin/hostentries on this server.

After making some changes, the virtual domain
I was attempting to create apeared without
my going through the create virtual domain
functions in server-manager.

Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: Scott on October 01, 2003, 06:40:55 AM

Scott wrote:
>
> Guck Puppy wrote:
> >
> > This is for 5.6?
> >
> > G
>
> Yes,
>
> I have done some changes and I am getting the
> following error message when I attempt to change
> the dns settings back to self:
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access
> /server-manager/cgi-bin/hostentries on this server.
>
> After making some changes, the virtual domain
> I was attempting to create apeared without
> my going through the create virtual domain
> functions in server-manager.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Update:  I get the above error anytime I use
mydomain.com/server-manager
However, if I use ip.ad.dr.ess/server-manager
I don't recieve any error messages.
Everything seems to work fine.
I would like to get it back to where it
was working with mydomain.com

Thanks.

Title: Re: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: dave on October 02, 2003, 10:40:16 PM

Normally, you can just remove any reference to any related custom templates then expand the effected template and restart the appropriate service(s).  The online documentation details how to modify/create a template fragment, reverse the process to remove unwanted fragments.

That's one of the best parts of how SME works.  It's still easy to screw up a service by entering invalid options in a config file but removing the invalid options is as easy as telling SME to recreate the appropriate .conf files.

Title: Re: need help to uninstall public dns
Post by: Scott on October 05, 2003, 05:55:17 AM

Thanks Dave,

I was off line for the past few days (just fixed it)
because the service was all screwed up.
I built a seconf esmith box and
looked at how the default was
configured. Deleted all the templates
in the template-custom folder
that I didn't want including the
name folder, and issued the
command to rebuild the templates
and restart named.

Due to the fact that win98 has some
incompatability with pppoe, (something
I found out a couple of months after getting
dsl and changing over to a linux distro that
wasn't as easy to set up as e-smith.
sme automatically proxied my connection
for me so it hid the win98's little secret on me:-)
So once the name service was properly configured
I was able to connect to the internet.

In any case, this does confirm the fix even though
I stumbled accross it myself. Either way, thanks
for the help.

Scott