nslookup YES!!! ping,ftp NO????

[Michael Voight]

Same answer, but it doesn't have to be Solaris 7.

Michael Voight

Daniel Matuschek wrote:
> 
> ISBlaney wrote:
> >
> > Please help out this newbie.
> >
> > I have recently setup bind on our UNIX machine. As far as I can see I have set
> > up the configuration files properly.
> >
> >  My problem is that I cannot ping, telnet etc any hosts using their hostname. I
> > keep getting "hostname not found" messsge but when I use nslookup <hostname> I
> > get a reply with correct IP address.
> >
> > Why is this?
> > Thanks in advance
> > Ian
> 
> Is it Solaris ? Then look at /etc/nsswitch.conf
> There should be a line
> 
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> If there is no dns in this line, nslookup will be the only software
> which uses DNS.
> 
> Daniel
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> 
> Daniel Matuschek
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