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- From: howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman)
- Subject: Re: How does HPUX find name server?
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:06:53 GMT
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- Michael Smith (p00004@psilink.com) wrote:
- : I have the ARPA services up and running and I can ping anybody in the
- : world, do Telnet and FTP, etc., as long as I have the Internet address
- : (i.e. the numeric form) of the host address. It can't deal with domain
- : name addresses and doesn't seem to be even trying to get to a domain
- : name server. I have the internet address for the DNS we use, and I've
- : created a resolve.conf file in the usual way with this address in it,
- : but this doesn't seem to help. Can this revision use the DNS? If so, how
- : do I call its attention to the existence of the service and the location
- : of the server?
-
- It sounds like you may not have specified a default gateway, and/or you
- don't have your default gateway's info in /etc/hosts. If your machine is on
- the other side of a gateway from the nameserver, this would keep you from
- resolving any network names.
-
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