Bind works, other apps don't'....

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Christopher Griesel wrote:
> I've downloaded, compiled and installed 8.22-pl7 on Slakware 7.1
> 
> named, dig, nslookup (which bash seems to insist finding in /usr/local/sbin)
> all work fine,
> I've got it running perfectly as a caching only name server.
> 
> My other network app's on the Linux box don't work now, such as ping,
> traceroute, gftp, ftp, postfix, etc...
> They all return: "Host not found"
> 
> any ideas? ldconfig? resolv.h?

Look in /etc/host.conf for the line
	order hosts,bind

Look in /etc/resolv.conf for any typos.

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