[SunHELP] Help! Having dns resolution problems

[Kevin Stevens]

nsswitch.conf

KeS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Bran Tregare
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 03:01
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Help! Having dns resolution problems
> Importance: High
>
>
> I built solaris 8 out onto a sparc 20 with Ross 90 in it, I think I may
> have been so tired  when I did this that I said "none" to name
> resolution :(
>
>   I have manually created resolv.conf, in.named is running at boot and I
> can run nslookup and do DNS queries.  I ahve added the default route (my
> router's IP) and all that is working, however, Netscrape and
> Ping, tracert,
> etc refuse to resolve Human friendly Addresses, they work if i put the IP
> address in ...
>
> ping 199.164.144.15 works
> ping www.rit.com fails with "unknown host www.rit.com" :(
> error... should I
> just bag it and do a full reinstall? :(:(:(:(
>
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