[Sunhelp] dns problem

[Tan Jian]

Hi, Ken:

Thanks for your reply. and I think your assumption is near the
the solution. but excuse my poor sun acknowledge. I need your 
further solution for the problem.

regards
kevin



Hall, Ken (ECCS) wrote:
> 
> 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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