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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!link
- From: link@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Richard Link)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Problems with Name service
- Message-ID: <28679@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 16:03:23 GMT
- References: <78309@hydra.gatech.EDU> <28635@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Reply-To: link@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Richard Link)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
- Lines: 26
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- >In comp.sys.sun.admin, jh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Jay Harrell) writes:
- >>I'm setting up my Sun (I'm trying to at least) to use a name server.
- >>When I run nslookup, I get the name and address of my default server
- >>and I can query it to my heart's delight. When I run (ping/telnet/ftp/whateve
- >>with a host that is not in my local host file, I get "unknown host" My
- >>resolv.conf file looks like this.......
- >
-
- > link@oasys.dt.navy.mil responded with--
- >I have a similar problem on my machine running DNS without NIS. In order to
- >fix this problem you must modify and rebuild the resolver library....
-
- Several people sent me e-mail suggesting the use of the resolv+ package which
- allows any combination of DNS, etc/hosts and NIS to be used in any order
- desired.
-
- Thanks to those who responded. You know who you are.
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-
- Rick Link Internet: link@fracture.dt.navy.mil
- David Taylor Research Center Ma Bell: (301)267-4335
- Annapolis, MD 21402-5067 Autovon: 281-4335
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- Rick Link Internet: link@fracture.dt.navy.mil
- David Taylor Research Center Ma Bell: (301)267-4335
- Annapolis, MD 21402-5067 Autovon: 281-4335
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