DNS Problem: Any Ideas
Jonathan Roberts
snarfle99 at hotmail.com
Mon May 1 17:22:35 UTC 2000
Do you have your resolv.conf file setup correctly?
man resolver
Also check your host.conf file.
JR.
> I have DNS set up, and a couple of my machines can't seem to use DNS.
> When I do an
> nslookup from the machine, it can resolve everything fine. When I do a
> ping from the machine
> using the DNS name, and that name is not in /etc/hosts, it gives me
> ping: unknown hosts <hostname>.
>
> Anyway, nslookup can find it, when I put it in the /etc/hosts file it
> can find it, but when I don't do that I get a
> unknown hosts error. Oh yeah, I can ping the ip directly. Therefore it
> is an DNS problem. Is there something
> wrong with some libraries, not telling the maching to query the DNS or
> something. The machine is
> not even trying to query the DNS. Thanks in Advance
>
> Corey
>
>
>
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