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

[TomST at netins.com]

you can also check to see if your name server is working by doing it from the
command line

nslookup www.cisco.com 192.168.230.6

this will bypass the resolv.conf file

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim [mailto:wdh at belbone.be]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:12 AM
To: Tom Stewart
Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] dns doesn't work in solaris 9!!!!


Should be ok:
search car.belbone.be
nameserver 192.168.230.6

I see that the query enters my DNS server....
But the strange thing is: it does a reverse lookup of a private address...

Jul 10 14:43:25 odin named[2432]:
XX+/192.168.230.11/6.230.168.192.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN

Cheers!

Wim

TomST at netins.com wrote:

>What about your /etc/resolv.conf  what does it look like?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wim [mailto:wdh at belbone.be]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:03 AM
>To: Anthony J. Gabrielson
>Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] dns doesn't work in solaris 9!!!!
>
>
>Hmm...
>
>Switched dns & files, but still the same problem....
>The Dig method works! nslookup doesn't... strange!
>
>Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
>
>>Switch that dns & files entry on the hosts line.  Then try it again/
>>
>>Anthony
>>
>>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Wim wrote:
>>
>>>Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
>>>
>>>>tell me about your nsswitch.conf file - especially the hosts line.
>>>>
>>>Here's my a extract of nsswitch.conf:
>>>
>>>passwd:     files
>>>group:      files
>>>hosts:      files dns
>>>ipnodes:    files
>>>networks:   files
>>>protocols:  files
>>>rpc:        files
>>>ethers:     files
>>>netmasks:   files
>>>bootparams: files
>>>publickey:  files
>>># At present there isn't a 'files' backend for netgroup;  the system will
>>>#   figure it out pretty quickly, and won't use netgroups at all.
>>>netgroup:   files
>>>automount:  files
>>>aliases:    files
>>>services:   files
>>>sendmailvars:   files
>>>printers:       user files
>>>
>>>auth_attr:  files
>>>prof_attr:  files
>>>project:    files
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Wim
>>>
>>>>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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