resolving local host names
Adrian Stovall
AdrianS at pfk.com
Sun Aug 20 18:27:26 UTC 2000
Try typing "ping pctech" and I bet it will work. The hosts file doesn't
necessarily have anything to do with bind or DNS, it just provides a list of
alias names to your local machine for different IP's. Nslookup is a
DNS-specific program, so if pctech isn't a name that your DNS server
resolves, nslookup won't be able to return info for it. Ping should show
you the IP address that was specified in your /etc/hosts file.
>Hello, I've got a caching only name server running on a box with RH 6.2.
>It correctly resolves external names. I'd like it to resolve internal
names
>by checking the /etc/hosts file. My /etc/nsswitch.conf file has hosts:
>files dns, yet when I run "nslookup pctech" is doesn't not resolve "pctech"
>although it is listed in the host file. What am I missing?
"Murphy was an optomist"
-O'Toole's commentary on Murpy's Law
Adrian Stovall
Senior Systems Engineer
PFK Business Systems, Inc.
(972) 621-0300
www.pfk.com
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