SUMMARY: DNS and Solaris

From: Nikos Passas-NOC (npas@isosun.ariadne-t.gr)
Date: Mon May 29 1995 - 07:50:22 CDT


 Hello Sun Managers,
 
 With this mail I'd like to thank all of you who have responded to
 my question about DNS in Solaris. The original question was:
 
>
> I'm facing some problems with a Sun Sparc 10, having Solaris and
> I would appreciate some help.
>
> I tried to put the Sparc on the network and although all the network
> programs works fine (ftp, telnet, gopher) using IP addresses,
> DNS seems to have problems and no program works with IP names.
>
> I have created the file /etc/resolv.conf and put in it the default DNS
> servers but it didn't help. I assume that the problem is in the resolver
> library (/usr/lib/libresolv.so) but I'm not sure.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what might be the problem?
 
 I took more answers than I could dream of and all of them advise me to
 look at the file /etc/nsswitch.conf. Here is a sample answer:
 
 
> Look in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and verify that the "hosts"
> entry looks like this:
> hosts: dns files
>
> This tells the host to consult DNS records before /etc/hosts entries.
> The default for this file is to state only "files" (/etc/hosts, etc.)
> The "dns" string must appear first, reading from left to right.
 
 Actually this was a simple problem but I have to say that the machine
 of interest was a remote host and I had no manuals to read, so I was
 trying to find a way out. I want to thank all the people who aswered.
 The list of them follows (I hope I don't forget anybody. Excuse me if
 I do).
 
 
 Sonic the Hedgehog <sonic@deepspc1.htls.lib.il.us>
 Stephen Schaefer - Imonics Consultant <sps@imonics.com>
 sunman@criterion.com (Aditya Talwar)
 Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
 Lyle Miller <lmiller@aspensys.com>
 bidwell@andrews.edu (Daniel R. Bidwell)
 deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal NRL)
 reedwv@expu79 (Bill Reed)
 dly@caveat.csl.sri.com
 kmumford@esoc.esa.de (Mumford)
 "MR.OMAR" <root@tsd.ksm.com.my>
 sunm@erm.oz.au (Brett Newton-Palmer(Sun Admin))
 Jack Porter <jack@scope.dentistry.adelaide.edu.au>
 tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
 Ric Anderson <ric@seagull.rtd.com>
 rosetti@mailhost.ocp.rl.af.mil (Jim Rosetti)
 misawa@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Shigeki Misawa)
 reggie@rentec.com (Reggie Dugard)
 Paul_Lupa@galileo.tracor.com (Paul Lupa X4184)
 From: Simon Burr <simes@tcp.co.uk>
 Chris Swanson <cds@SSDS.com>
 Matt.Sherek@seag.fingerhut.com (Matt Sherek)
 terence@interval.net (Terence P. Spielman)
 Andy_Feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Andy Feldt)
 "Tanya Herlick" <tanya@ora.com>
 "Michael (M.A.) Meystel" <MEYSTMA@DUVM.BITNET>
 "Michael J. Covington" <covingto@NADN.Navy.MIL>
 roy@mss.com (Rahul Roy)
 Philip Moose <moose%ctc.csustan.edu@altair.csustan.edu>
 Anatoly.Lisovsky@kamaz.kazan.su (Anatoly M. Lisovsky)
 brunel@delver.iterus.org
 bobr@SUGAR-LAND.WIRELINE.SLB.COM ( Bob Reardon )
 Tom Mornini <tmornini@parallaxinc.com>
 guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
 stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Distinguished Systems Engineer)
 Eric.Olemans@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
 "System Administrator" <suli@indi1.sebuaa.ac.cn>
 cmacleod@mcs.dundee.ac.uk (Colin Macleod)
 "Scott L. Sherrill" <slsherri@mtu.edu>
 jerry.springer@valcom.com (Jerry Springer)
 "Mike Ordun" <mro@lci.com>
 "N" <Nikos.Apostolou@intranet.gr>
 
 Thanks again
 
 Nikos Passas
 Systems Administrator
 Ariadne Network
 NCSR Demikritos
 Athens - Greece
 



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