[SunHELP] dns doesn't work in solaris 9!!!!

[Wim]

Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

>tell me about your nsswitch.conf file - especially the hosts line.
>
Here's my a extract of nsswitch.conf:

passwd:     files
group:      files
hosts:      files dns
ipnodes:    files
networks:   files
protocols:  files
rpc:        files
ethers:     files
netmasks:   files
bootparams: files
publickey:  files
# At present there isn't a 'files' backend for netgroup;  the system will
#   figure it out pretty quickly, and won't use netgroups at all.
netgroup:   files
automount:  files
aliases:    files
services:   files
sendmailvars:   files
printers:       user files

auth_attr:  files
prof_attr:  files
project:    files

Cheers,

Wim

>
>Anthony
>
>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Wim wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>
>>I have a serious problem...
>>when I pinged a hostname instead of an ip-address, I realised that my 
>>dns lookup isn't working.
>>I found out that dig works but nslookup don't!!
>>
>>
>>anyone has an idea?
>>
>>
>>some output:
>>
>>
>>bash-2.05# dig www.cisco.com
>>
>>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.cisco.com
>>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>>;; got answer:
>>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
>>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>>;; QUERY SECTION:
>>;;      www.cisco.com, type = A, class = IN
>>
>>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>www.cisco.com.          20h53m59s IN A  198.133.219.25
>>
>>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>>cisco.com.              20h13m2s IN NS  NS1.cisco.com.
>>cisco.com.              20h13m2s IN NS  NS2.cisco.com.
>>
>>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>>NS1.cisco.com.          7h32m58s IN A   128.107.241.185
>>NS2.cisco.com.          1h31m7s IN A    192.135.250.69
>>
>>;; Total query time: 73 msec
>>;; FROM: freya to SERVER: default -- 192.168.230.6
>>;; WHEN: Wed Jul 10 14:15:09 2002
>>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 124
>>
>>bash-2.05# nslookup www.cisco.com
>>*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.230.6: Non-existent 
>>host/domain
>>*** Default servers are not available
>>bash-2.05#
>>
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Wim
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