DNS/Apache Oddities and Word Perfect

[Ben Pfaff]

Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@msu.edu> writes:

> Here is my current SOA record on Granitecanyon (public DNS):
[...]
> If anyone has any ideas why this is not working, let me know. It is
> pissing me off.

Your nameserver info is not installed.

    blp:~(0)$ nslookup
    Default Server:  localhost
    Address:  127.0.0.1

    > server ns2.granitecanyon.com
    Default Server:  ns2.granitecanyon.com
    Address:  204.1.217.148

    > ls monkey-dance.com
    [ns2.granitecanyon.com]
    $ORIGIN monkey-dance.com.
    @                       12H IN A        198.109.166.183
    localhost               12H IN A        127.0.0.1
    >


> Second, I can't for the life of me get Word Perfect to install because
> alien won't turn it into a rpm from a deb. It just hangs at the command
> line with no output. I've even let it run overnight just in case it a
> took really long to do, but it never finishes the process. I'll post
> Word Perfect for anyone to try to convert for me if someone can just
> figure the stupid thing out.

Try running `strace' on alien to see where it is hanging.
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