dns not resolving

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9hde5e$hcc at pub3.rc.vix.com>, JCM  <symetrie at online.fr> wrote:
>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 ?

Are you running Solaris?  It doesn't use DNS by default, you have to add
"dns" to the "hosts" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

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