DNS Problem: Any Ideas
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Mon May 1 14:41:43 UTC 2000
In article <390CA6C3.C4599577 at home.com>,
Corey Ellis <corey.m.ellis at home.com> wrote:
>I have DNS set up, and a couple of my machines can't seem to use DNS.
>When I do an
>nslookup from the machine, it can resolve everything fine. When I do a
>ping from the machine
>using the DNS name, and that name is not in /etc/hosts, it gives me
>ping: unknown hosts <hostname>.
Is it a Solaris system? Have you put "dns" in the "hosts" line of
/etc/nsswitch.conf?
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