ping problems with BIND9

[Kerry Thompson]

That delay sounds like its searching for the domain, in other words the
client system doesn't know what domain its in.
Try pinging the fully qualified domain name eg.
machinename.your_domain.tld, and/or adding a 'domain' statement into
/etc/resolv.conf:

  domain your_domain.tld

Kerry


Mike Branda said:
> Kerry,
>
> here's what's in nsswitch.conf.  it already had dns in the hosts and
> networks lines.  What's strange is that if I remove the nameserver from
> resolv.conf, when I do "ping machinename" it immediately returns "ping:
> unknown host machinename". But when the nameserver is there, it takes
> about 15 seconds to return the same message.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:56, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>> Mike
>> Some information on what the client OS is would help.
>>
>> (taking a punt that they are *nix) It sounds like the clients have
>> /etc/resolv.conf configured, but /etc/nsswitch.conf hasn't got "dns"
>> configured for hosts lookups. A key difference between dig/host and
>> vanilla commands ( ping, telnet ) are that dig goes straight to
>> resolv.conf to find DNS servers, whereas ping uses normal libraries to
>> read nsswitch.conf then oges to resolv.conf
>>
>> Kerry
>>
>>
>> Mike Branda said:
>> > O.K. here goes.  after muddling around for a bit now I am out of ideas
>> > as to why this isn't working.  I have set up an internal only domain
>> > "my.fakedomain.local" and am having a minor issue.  I can use dig from
>> > the dns server to any machine listed in the zone and get the proper
>> > answer and can do the same from any client machine as well as reverse
>> > lookups.  The caching from external web servers works also.  What I am
>> > having an issue with is that I can ping by IP and hostname for the
>> local
>> > network machines from the dns box itself but pings only work by IP
>> from
>> > the clients.  Again, dig works on both dns and clients for local
>> machine
>> > name lookups.  Any ideas why I can't ping hostnames from clients??
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Mike
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