From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 17 18:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4253C37B41F for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@FreeBSD.org) Received: from strontium.shef.vinosystems.com ([192.168.91.36] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15MgHd-000ACD-00; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:37:49 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:37:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Magnus Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: System unable to resolve hostnames Message-ID: <20010718023748.O59863@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> References: <000b01c10f28$42f2c740$0200a8c0@chello.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c10f28$42f2c740$0200a8c0@chello.no> X-PGP-Key: http://www.smithurst.org/ben/pgp-key.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Magnus wrote: > What makes it even more wierd, is that I am able to resolv hostnames by > using > 'nslookup'. > prompt # nslookup freebsd.org > server: dnscache01.chello.no > address: 212.186.255.29 >=20 > Name: Freebsd.org > address: 216.136.204.21 >=20 > Wich means I am able to resolve hostnames, DNS is working, however > applications like ping, ftp etc. fails to resolve hostnames. > How does the application resolve hostnames, what can cause what I > am experiencing ? Seems like this sort of thing could happen if you didn't have 'bind' listed in /etc/host.conf. I'm not sure -hackers is the most appropriate list either. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VOhrbPzJ+yzvRCwRAi9kAKDSWsksOvA1SrsVIh83tRDIQOqRVwCfWjst Zwg8bUMm3SLv4igh1BKVmF0= =lMTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mSxgbZZZvrAyzONB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message