[SunHELP] dns doesn't work in solaris 9!!!!

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

tell me about your nsswitch.conf file - especially the hosts line.

Anthony

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Wim wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> 
> I have a serious problem...
> when I pinged a hostname instead of an ip-address, I realised that my 
> dns lookup isn't working.
> I found out that dig works but nslookup don't!!
> 
> 
> anyone has an idea?
> 
> 
> some output:
> 
> 
> bash-2.05# dig www.cisco.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.cisco.com
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      www.cisco.com, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.cisco.com.          20h53m59s IN A  198.133.219.25
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> cisco.com.              20h13m2s IN NS  NS1.cisco.com.
> cisco.com.              20h13m2s IN NS  NS2.cisco.com.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> NS1.cisco.com.          7h32m58s IN A   128.107.241.185
> NS2.cisco.com.          1h31m7s IN A    192.135.250.69
> 
> ;; Total query time: 73 msec
> ;; FROM: freya to SERVER: default -- 192.168.230.6
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jul 10 14:15:09 2002
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 124
> 
> bash-2.05# nslookup www.cisco.com
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.230.6: Non-existent 
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> bash-2.05#
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Wim
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