Bug 150765

Summary: bind-utils missing resolver.5 manpage
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: nathan r. hruby <nhruby>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 3.0CC: jvdias, poelstra, tao, v.bray
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Whiteboard: RHEL3U7NAK
Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0424 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Suggested resolver.5 man-page none

Description nathan r. hruby 2005-03-10 12:49:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Hi,

The bind-utils pages traditionally carries a resolver.5 manpage so that
"man resolv.conf" and "man 5 resolver" produce some output.  This appears to not be the case in RHEL3

old.box# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
old.box# rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man5/resolver.5.gz
bind-utils-9.2.1-1.7x.2

new.box# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
new.box# rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man5/resolver.5.gz
error: file /usr/share/man/man5/resolver.5.gz: No such file or directory
new.box# rpm -q bind-utils
bind-utils-9.2.4-5_EL3
 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bind-utils-9.2.4-5_EL3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See Description
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Actual Results:  no manpage

Expected Results:  resolver.5 manpage is shown

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-03-10 16:06:08 UTC 
Yes, sorry - there appears to have been some communication failure
with the glibc maintainers . GLIBC should be providing the
documentation of its resolver, and the glibc maintainers had agreed
to do so, but evidently did not apply this to RHEL-3. 
The resolver.5 manpage provided by BIND dated from 1993 and was 
hopelessly out of date. I'll get an updated resolver man-page 
into the RHEL-3 man-pages for the next release .
Comment 4 Jason Vas Dias 2005-06-01 16:07:04 UTC 
The resolver(5) man-page is not shipped in ISC BIND .

BIND does not implement the resolver functionality : glibc does.

Previously, we had shipped a very out-of-date resolver man-page (from 1991 !)
copied from the BSD man-pages, which caused much confusion amongst users.

The man-pages package (or glibc) needs to ship the up-to-date resolver man-page 
in RHEL-3 .

BIND should not ship an out-of-date resolver man-page. We need to ship 
up-to-date documentation for the resolver, as is done for the
resolver(3) man-page, in man-pages.
Comment 5 Jason Vas Dias 2005-06-01 16:49:28 UTC 
Created attachment 115041 [details]
Suggested resolver.5 man-page
Comment 9 Vincent Bray 2005-07-21 08:54:56 UTC 
*** Bug 155695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-03 19:55:53 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0424.html