On Friday 04 June 2004 01:52 pm, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 13:41, Allen Winter wrote: > > > Compare your FC2 systems resolv.conf to your other systems. I am > > > thinking you will find a difference. > > > > Both have the same /etc/resolv.conf: > > > > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > > > I'm still stumped. > > allen > > hmmm, check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file also. There should be a line > there something like: > > hosts: file dns > > This tells your system what order to search things when resolving > names. The example above says check the /etc/hosts file first then > dns. You may by default have an entry for nis as well. If you are not > running nis then it should not matter. > > You probably don't want to put dns first. I have always found it useful > to be able to override dns results by putting entries in the hosts file > when needed. > All three of my systems have: hosts: files dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf
