[techtalk] Completely Stumped...

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Catie,

If this problem should occur again, I would suggest to you to try a pkill 
of nscd ( the naming service caching daemon).  It turns out that this 
daemon is 99% part of the problem.  With any luck Sun will either drop it 
or fix it.

Phil

At 09:33 PM 25/03/01 -0800, Catie Flick wrote:
>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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