dns not resolving

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, dig is hard-coded to use DNS, and Netscape (I assume you're referring
to the Netscape browser rather than some other piece of Netscape
software) may be using an HTTP proxy, in which case the proxy would be
doing the DNS resolution, not your box.

Sounds like your OS is not configured to use DNS for name resolution. Since
you haven't given us any idea what OS this is, one can only speculate how
you could verify and/or correct this...


- Kevin

JCM wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have setup an internal dns with bind 8, for a small LAN behind adsl
> connection,
> to see intranet sites and share internet. It seems to work (everything
> resolves with dig), and I can grep no named errors in messages when
> restarting.
> But I cannot resolve names to IP when using ftp (ncftp or Igloo-FTP) nor
> lynx or Amaya,
> whereas it works perfectly with Netscape.
> Do you have any idea of what is badly configured ?
>
> Thanks
>
> JCM