[rescue] DNS Client

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 at 20:03:34 (-0700), Rick Hamell wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] DNS Client
>
> 	Ok, I've finally jumped in the pool, and put Solaris 8 back on my
> Sparc 20. Unluckily, DNS is not working properly. I've got network and
> ping any IP I want. BUT, no www.xxxx.com stuff.
> 
> 	Anyways, I created the resolv.conf to my name server. And
> nsswitch.conf has hosts: files dns in it. Some where I'm missing
> something. I spent about 8 hours this weekend perusing docs.sun.com and
> can't find anything to help. Anyone have some pointers?

Not that it should necessarily cause the problem you're seeing, but did
you kill nscd and prevent it from starting again (or at least configure
it to _not_ cache hostnames)?

can you see DNS queries going out to your specified resolv.conf host(s)
with the likes of snoop?

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