DNS Problem: Any Ideas

[Jonathan Roberts]

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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