I know I must be doing something horribly stupid, but pleeeease help me
(and feel free to insult me ;->) ... here attached is the problem I
described offline ...
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Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - Win.\* victim
Via Sciangai, 53 - 00144 Rome, Italy
I am going crazy on a name resolution problem.
After I fixed sendmail I could not resolve ANYTHING anymore.
Dunno exactly what I goofed ...
I was running a system without bind and resolved the loopback and a few host
names with the /etc/host file.
Suddendly resolution was broken totally !!! As an attempt I installed bind to
resolve at least the local address.
I am now running bind version: 1:8.1.2-2 in a forwarders only mode.
I am not connected to the network where my forwarder is (9.87.2.151) as
my portable is at home (only loopback).
I can resolv localhost and 127.0.0.1 with the following behaviour:
PWD=/home/bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > host localhost
localhost A 127.0.0.1
PWD=/home/bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > host 127.0.0.1
Name: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Aliases: deb760xl
PWD=/home/bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > host deb760xl
Nameserver not responding
deb760xl A record not found, try again
same behaviour without a resolv.conf or with one containing 127.0.0.1
same behaviour as I try to resolve pan (even if fully qualified)
I have a /etc/hosts file with the following (edited) content:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost deb760xl
9.87.2.151 pan pan.ncrome.romesc.ibm.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: db files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
I even tried changing the nsswitch and host.conf files omitting bind/dns
altogether ... same thing.
My hostname is now non qualified but before I event tried giving it an
hostname+domain to no avail.
Of course once I connect to my network all resolution, forward and straight is
performed flawlessly by my 9.87.2.151 host ...
Any clues ??????????
Thank you very much in advance. Bob Alexander
PS system is a Debian slink
