PING failing, but DIG works fine

Idris Saliu saliui at qwestscientific.com
Wed Feb 25 09:16:01 UTC 2004


On 2004-02-24 23:36:01 +0100, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> 
said:

> Idris Saliu wrote:
> 
> > Hi  all,
> > I'm a newbie trying to get a dns server working for my local lan. I 
> > 
> > seem to have gotten everything working correctly, from my dns 
> > server. 
> > when I use dig, i get the expected information and i can also ping 
> > the 
> > different hosts and get the expected results. My problem is this, 
> > from 
> > any other machine in my network, dig works fine, giving me the 
> > expected 
> > information for names of the servers on my lan, what fails is 
> > pinging 
> > the same hostname returns an unknown hostname error.  The server 
> > also 
> > runs a dhcp server and that works as expected.
> > 
> Have you configured your system to use DNS for name resolution? 
> Different OS platforms have different ways of configuring this (e.g. 
> in 
> Solaris, /etc/nsswitch.conf controls this). dig is hardwired to use 
> DNS, 
> so it is independent of the system-wide name-resolution configuration 
> 
> settings.
> 
>                                                                       
>    
>                                     - Kevin

Kevin,

Thanks for your reply , my client system is OSX 10.3. It is configured 
to use dns for name resolution. I've looked around, but still can't 
find out what i'm doing wrong.


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