[techtalk] Completely Stumped...

Catie Flick liedrliedr at liedra.net
Sun Mar 25 21:33:23 EST 2001


Well, it seems that I've fixed it - a reboot because of a power failure
seems to have magically made things work (although we did try rebooting
earlier...) and no idea still of why this would happen :) 

I think we'll just have to leave the whys and wherefores of this to
obscurity :)

Cheers,

Catie

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Catie Flick wrote:

> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I know this is a Linux discussion list, but I thought maybe someone would
> have an idea about my problem...
> 
> I've just installed Solaris 8 on a Sun system, plus Gnome, etc. The
> problem is that some things just won't resolve names. I have pointed
> resolv.conf to my nameserver on another linux machine, and nslookup,
> telnet, ssh find it perfectly well (i.e. are able to look up names fine).
> Btw, the /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts entry is 
> 	hosts:	files dns
> 
> The problem is evident when I run ping, wget, netscape, and probably a
> couple of other programs that I haven't tried yet. They simply won't
> resolve names. With netscape I managed to get around the problem by
> pointing the proxy settings to the squid proxy on the (same) linux
> machine.
> 
> It just seems really weird that some things will resolve and others won't!
> Does anyone have any ideas? I'd be very very grateful :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Catie Flick
> 
> P.S. the problem existed before I installed Gnome too :)
> 
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