[rescue] IRIX name resolution woes

[Stephen Worotynec]

Does /etc/resolv.conf have a "hostresorder" line? What does it say?

Do you have an environmental variable HOSTRESORDER set?

The resolver will try to check NIS first unless you explicity have
something like:

hostresorder local bind

in resolv.conf. (And setting HOSTRESORDER overrides resolv.conf.)

Good luck,


Steve Worotynec


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Katchabaw wrote:

>
> I entered all my network information -- a host name, IP address,
> gateway, name servers and so on.  I can ping or telnet to IP addresses
> with no troubles at all.  nslookup will match host names to IP
> addresses with no problems.  But, when I try to ping or telnet to a
> host name, it fails with a host unknown error, even if nslookup can
> find the address for me.
>
> Checking resolv.conf, I see all the name servers correctly and can
> ping them by their IP addresses (there are no other lines in the
> file).  I have not installed NIS, so I removed all traces of it from
> nsswitch.conf and ensured that the hosts line referred to both files
> and dns.