PING failing, but DIG works fine

[Kevin Darcy]

Idris Saliu wrote:

>On 2004-02-24 23:36:01 +0100, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> 
>said:
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>>Idris Saliu wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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 
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>>settings.
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>>                                    - Kevin
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>Kevin,
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>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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Try turning on query logging, to see if the queries are actually getting 
to the nameserver.

                                                                         
                  - Kevin