[Sunhelp] dns problem

[Hall, Ken (ECCS)]

I had a similar problem and it turned out to be that nsswitch.conf was set
up to look for nisplus before DNS, so it had to wait for a response from a
nonexistent nis+ server before looking to DNS.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tan Jian [SMTP:kevin at gb.com.cn]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 20, 1999 8:17 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[Sunhelp] dns problem
> 
> hi,all:
> 
> Recently, my Sun workstation works unproperly.
> 
> it always takes a long time to obtain the destination IP
> 
> from the domain name by my WS. for example:
> 
> when I ping www.yahoo.com, after a long period, the system
> 
> get response "xxx is alive",  but when I ping IP address directly
> 
> I can get the result in no time.
> 
> I am sure our dns server is no problem,
> 
> cause other Workstation in the same segment has no such problem.
> 
> I think it is a software problem.
> 
> Can you all give me some directions?
> 
> any quick reply will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> regards
> kevin
> 
> 
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