Re: Openssh-portable

From: Lupe Christoph (lupe@lupe-christoph.de)
Date: 07/25/02 

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:10:29 +0200
To: "Travis L. Leuthauser" <travis@bbipmail.com>
From: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph)

On Thursday, 2002-07-25 at 07:58:31 -0500, Travis L. Leuthauser wrote:
> As I understand, this is a known problem with openssh-portable when using
> privsep. Apparently after initiating privsep, sshd attempts to read
> /etc/resolv.conf, which it can't since chrooted to /var/empty. A workaround
> is to copy resolv.conf into /var/empty/etc. The only problem w/ this is
> that /var/empty is intented to be empty.

If there is no (chroot)/etc/resolv.conf, the resolver will try
127.0.0.1. So if you run a local named, this will work.

HTH,
Lupe Christoph 

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