Common problems with installing BIND 4.9.3 on SunOS 4.1.x
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$Id: PROBLEMS,v 8.4 1995/12/29 07:16:25 vixie Exp $

by Chris Davis <ckd@kei.com>

There are a number of potential trouble spots when installing BIND 4.9.3
on a SunOS 4.1.x system (though the rewards, in my opinion, far outweigh
the risks).  This file is an incomplete and partial list of them, with
solutions and/or workarounds.  Comments and additions are appreciated.

Note that you should read the file shres/sunos/INSTALL *thoroughly* before
beginning the installation of BIND's resolver code in your shared library.

* undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlclose, _dlsym (unless you -ldl)

You've previously rebuilt your shared library using Sun's instructions
(/usr/lib/shlib.etc/README).  (See also next topic.)

Sun's /usr/lib/shlib.etc/Makefile usually does not include -ldl when
building the new shared library.  Unfortunately, this means that if you
ever rebuild the shared library without adding -ldl, you will need to add
-ldl to *every* compilation on that machine from then on.

This is often the case when you have installed resolv+ or made other
changes to libc.so; since Sun's shipped /usr/lib/shlib.etc/Makefile, and
even the copy included with most "jumbo libc patches", doesn't include the
-ldl, you may have already found this problem.

Solution: The file shres/sunos/sun-Makefile.patch2 will add -ldl to the
appropriate lines in /usr/lib/shlib.etc/Makefile, as will some (but not
all!) versions of the various "jumbo libc" patches.  The lines beginning
with "ld -assert" should both end with "-ldl".

* undefined symbols _mbstowcs_xccs, _mbtowc_xccs, wcstombs_xccs, _wctomb_xccs 

You've previously rebuilt your shared library using Sun's instructions
(/usr/lib/shlib.etc/README).  (See also previous topic.)

Sun's /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README tells you that you need to do two mv
commands because "ar" truncated filenames over 16 characters.

They lied; you need to do *three*.  "mv xccs.multibyte. xccs.multibyte.o"
at the end of step 3 in /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README.

Solution: shres/sunos/INSTALL tells you about, and shres/makeshlib renames, 
all three files.

* undefined symbol _strerror when compiling -Bstatic

This is usually seen when compiling emacs or sendmail V8, but will arise
with any program that uses -lresolv and is not dynamically linked.

You haven't integrated strerror.o into your static library libc.a, and you
didn't add -l44bsd to bring it in, either.

Solutions: Link with -l44bsd, link dynamically instead of statically, or
include strerror.o in the non-shared libc as well (see shres/sunos/ISSUES,
"Modifying the static libc").

* "parse error" on inet.h, nameser.h, resolv.h, netdb.h, bitypes.h

The BIND header files use the existence or value of the "BSD" preprocessor
definition to conditionally include bit-size types (since ANSI didn't
bother to create any when doing the C standard, alas).  The newest BSDish
systems have them already, but older BSDish (and all non-BSDish) systems
need them included (this category includes SunOS 4.1.x).

The problem is that if the symbol "BSD" is defined but has a null value,
the preprocessor will get a syntax error.  Various versions and variants
of GNU Emacs have this problem, as well as the NCSA httpd and probably
many other packages.

Solutions: change the program(s) being compiled to define "BSD" to a small
numeric value (such as "42"), or remove the conditional statements in the
installed header files (making sure to re-run fixincludes if using gcc).

* login gives "hostname is bad for this system" errors (users can't log in)

This is caused when using the SunOS "C2" password shadowing stuff
(/etc/security/passwd.adjunct and friends).  Make sure that

    dig `hostname`

returns the correct address(es) for this machine, and that

    dig `localhost`

returns 127.0.0.1.

Solution: make sure /etc/resolv.conf has a correct "search" path and
correct "nameserver" entries.  Also make sure that "localhost.your.domain"
exists and has the address 127.0.0.1.

* nslookup gives "*** Can't find server name for address x: Not implemented"

This means that you're using the old nslookup that Sun supplies, which
tries to use the (deprecated) INVQ operation to get the name of the DNS
server it's talking to.  The inverse query stuff is not supported by
default in BIND 4.9.3's named.

Solutions:

  Well, you could use DiG instead.... ;-)

  (best) replace Sun's nslookup with the one that came with BIND. This is
  not always possible if you have 1000 workstations, but if you're
  installing the new shared library on all of them, you can usually
  install the new nslookup too.

  (middlin') turn on "options fake-iquery" in your nameserver's named.boot
  file.  Unfortunately, this won't help you or your users if you point
  nslookup toward an off-site 4.9.3 named that didn't do this.  See also
  the BOG, section 5.1.11.

  (worst) compile with INVQ defined in conf/options.h.  This makes your
  named more bloated for no good reason and also has the disadvantages of
  the "fake-iquery" listed above.

* _res not defined

The shared library resolver objects use _res_shlib to prevent conflicts.

Solution: link programs that use _res directly with -lresolv.  This should
be done anyway as the _res internals may change or disappear in different
BIND versions.  For more details on why _res_shlib is used, see
shres/sunos/ISSUES, "global variable collision".

* /etc/hosts or NIS not consulted for host lookups

They aren't supposed to be; BIND 4.9.3's resolver is DNS-only.  4.9.4
should have something similar to resolv+'s functionality (allowing you to
configure the lookup order and services).  I leave /etc/hosts minimal (for
use with mount and rcp, since they're statically linked) and don't run
NIS.  At our site, DNS is considered the One True Hostname Authority.  NIS
and /etc/hosts don't have the same semantics as DNS anyway, which can
cause a number of problems.

Solutions: put all hosts in DNS, or use resolv+ until 4.9.4 is available.

* mount and rcp don't look up hosts using DNS

For good and logical reasons (they're useful for recovering if you manage
to screw up your shared libraries) they're statically linked.  They
therefore have the old gethostbyname() which looks only in NIS (if it's
running and supplies a hosts.byname map) or /etc/hosts (if NIS is not
running, or if it's not serving hosts.byname).

Solutions:

 - Put all the hosts you plan to mount filesystems from and/or rcp files
   to/from, in NIS or /etc/hosts.  Since most of the time you don't mount
   filesystems from just any old place, this is not a big problem for
   mount.  rcp within a small set of (presumably local) hosts is also
   possible.

 - Compile mount and/or rcp from 4.4Lite or Net/2 sources.  Some patching
   and fussing may be necessary.  I recommend saving the statically linked
   ones in /sbin for disaster recovery purposes.  If you give up on the
   traditional r-utilities for security reasons, compiling the Kerberized
   rcp (such as that in the Cygnus Network Security distribution) will
   normally result in a dynamically linked rcp.

* gcc won't compile -fpic code, but cc will compile -pic

You probably installed gcc to use GNU as.  Run gcc -v to find gcc's
library directory:

% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1/2.5.8/specs
gcc version 2.5.8

In this case, if GCC is using GNU as, it's probably installed in this
directory as /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1/2.5.8/as.  (It
may also be in your path ahead of /usr/bin/as.)

GNU as does not support position-independent code.

Solutions:

- (best) change SHCC to "gcc -B/usr/bin/ -DSUNOS4".  This will force gcc
  to use /usr/bin/as rather than any other one.

- use cc instead of gcc for SHCC.  Suboptimal, since cc can't share the
  read-only data (strings and the like).

- remove GNU as and use Sun's as.

* various problems with shared library revision numbers

Make sure you do *NOT* have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set to put
/usr/5lib first when building BIND.  BIND is not designed to be linked
with the System V libraries in /usr/5lib.  (If LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to
include /usr/openwin, that's fine; BIND doesn't use the X11 libraries.)

Also, if /usr/lib is included in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, make sure it's
"/usr/lib" and not "/lib" or "/usr/lib/" or the like.  This will confuse
ld.so when searching for libdl, and may cause the shared library build to
break.

* _getnetbyname/_getnetbyaddr "multiply defined"

You put Sun's getnetent.o back, but you didn't delete BIND's getnet*
object files.  BIND's getnetnamadr.o defines these.

You would normally only do this if you wanted to use /etc/networks instead
of the DNS for network names.  (See shres/sunos/ISSUES for why I recommend 
using RFC 1101 for network names instead.)

Solution: Delete *ALL* of BIND's getnet* objects before building the
shared library.

* update of libc.sa.* fails when using makeshlib

Sun's awkfile can get confused if you have certain combinations of libc.so
versions around.  This will result in makeshlib being unable to copy the
(nonexistant) libc.sa.1.* into place.  The awkfile patches cover all the
(currently known) ways it can get confused, but I'm sure there's still a
way to break it.

Solution: do it by hand.  makeshlib can't solve *every* problem.
