ping problems with BIND9

[Kerry Thompson]

Mike
Some information on what the client OS is would help.

(taking a punt that they are *nix) It sounds like the clients have
/etc/resolv.conf configured, but /etc/nsswitch.conf hasn't got "dns"
configured for hosts lookups. A key difference between dig/host and
vanilla commands ( ping, telnet ) are that dig goes straight to
resolv.conf to find DNS servers, whereas ping uses normal libraries to
read nsswitch.conf then oges to resolv.conf

Kerry


Mike Branda said:
> O.K. here goes.  after muddling around for a bit now I am out of ideas
> as to why this isn't working.  I have set up an internal only domain
> "my.fakedomain.local" and am having a minor issue.  I can use dig from
> the dns server to any machine listed in the zone and get the proper
> answer and can do the same from any client machine as well as reverse
> lookups.  The caching from external web servers works also.  What I am
> having an issue with is that I can ping by IP and hostname for the local
> network machines from the dns box itself but pings only work by IP from
> the clients.  Again, dig works on both dns and clients for local machine
> name lookups.  Any ideas why I can't ping hostnames from clients??
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike

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Kerry Thompson
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