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> So far I haven't seen an error.
the error was in 8.2.3 that was not setting the Auth. bit for hesiod.
see Mark's resp.
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> >you think i could find work there as a runaway dns manager? :-)

> dunno. It's also been quite I few years since I was a student in Givat Ram.
it's now Edmond Safra Campus, and we are School of Computer Science & Eng.
as someone before said, ... what's in a name, a rose by any other name is
still a rose ... (sorry W.S., it's been sometime)

> I can't get to ns. Is it inside a firewall?
>
good question, i remmember configuring named so that the hesiod stuff would
not leek out, but looking at the conf files i can't figure out what
magic does it :-) time for RTFM, but nice to know that i did something right.

danny