nslookup issues on hp-ux

[Christian Krackowizer]

At 06:33 22.02.2001 -0800, you wrote:


>Okay, now I'm really confused. I thought nslookup called resolver
>routines, which are supposed to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. The libbind.a
>looks like it compiles its own versions of the resolver routines, then
>gets linked into nslookup. So it is not using the native resolver routines
>from HP-UX, which, according to the man pages, go to nsswitch.conf to see
>where to resolve from. Also, both texts I consulted ("DNS and BIND, 3rd
>Ed." and "(The Concise Guide to) DNS and BIND") describe this resolver
>behavior, that nslookup uses the resolver to find which service to use
>(files, DNS or NIS). I'm very confused at this point and don't know what
>to believe...

Well, don't rely on HP's utilities. We too have HP-UX machines and they are 
very tricky conserning network. e.g. we have a pop3 daemon linked against 
HP's libraries. When the connection to the internet is down, this daemon 
needs lot of time to come up (1 minute, must be the timeout). As the only 
external information this machine has it the IP-address of our gateway, 
which is up and running, it must be something inside HP's 
libraries/implementions.
btw. we have 3 other OS which don't show this behaviour.

with best regards

Christian Krackowizer
schuler technodat GmbH
Jakob-Haringer-Strasse 6
A-5020 Salzburg
Phone: +43(0)662/2282-0
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e-Mail: ckrackowiz at std.schuler-ag.com