-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:37, Chris Jones wrote: > >>>> I have a networking problem which is puzzling me. I am >>>> clearly missing something. Several of my servers apps are >>>> failing because they are unable to resolve any of the local >>>> hostnames. I have checked /etc/hosts, /ete/resolv.conf and >>>> both are as they should be, yet I am unable to ping any of my >>>> LAN connected PC's by name. I can ping them by their IP >>>> addressess, but not by name. >>>> >>>> What else should I look for? >>> >>> >>> What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf? >>> >>> $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf >>> >>> Paul. >>> >> I get the following from that:- [root@bilbo ~]# grep hosts >> /etc/nsswitch.conf #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: >> files dns > > > Who is providing dns and are the names in there? What does 'dig > host.your_domain' say? > DNS is provided by a caching-only nameserver on bilbo and the only names I can see in the named.conf file are for localhost and localdomain. The output from the dig command is:- [root@bilbo ~]# dig bilbo.stow-jones.local ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> bilbo.stow-jones.local ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 59692 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;bilbo.stow-jones.local. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 10729 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2006011300 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 57 msec ;; SERVER: 212.23.3.100#53(212.23.3.100) ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 13 20:50:09 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115 [root@bilbo ~]# - -- mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Bizoos, n.: The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDyBSBZJbxzczKArcRAkq+AKCOu5GbDWJ2TdZXYJhpAw6jM5W8VgCdF1gj bVuqzApoPssRzTFWIuuHi4w= =hnUr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
