Dig and nslookup resolve; ping doesn't
Brett Carr
brettcarr at ripe.net
Thu Jul 14 08:02:55 UTC 2005
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Mark Tunnell wrote:
> I've got a box running Fedora Core release 3. I'm able to resolve
> names such as www.yahoo.com using nslookup or dig but not using ping.
> "ping www.yahoo.com" returns "ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com".
>
> /etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts: files dns
>
> I'm logged in as root. What am I missing here?
>
Well looks like you proved the namserver is working but also proved the
machine isnt using it.
What does your /etc/resolv.conf say, I would take a look there and ensure
it's pointing to its own ip (or localhost of course)
Brett
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