On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:59:45PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Sunday, Feb 19th 2006 at 15:40 -0600, quoth Les Mikesell: > > =>On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:56, Steven W. Orr wrote: > =>> I have a weird problem. > =>> > =>> 526 > hostname > =>> saturn.syslang.net > =>> 527 > > =>> > =>> But, ... > =>> > =>> 527> perl -MNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"' > =>> saturn.com > =>> > =>> And it takes almost 30 seconds to come back. (The above example is what I > =>> did to reduce the bigger problem which caused me to notice this to the > =>> smallest case.) > => > =>Look at /etc/resolv.conf. Is the first nameserver mentioned > =>there working? (Try 'dig @ip_number domain_to_look_up' to > =>test it). > > [root@saturn ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script > search cable.rcn.com > nameserver 207.172.3.8 > nameserver 207.172.3.9 > [root@saturn ~]# > > I don't own my resolv.conf, that comes to me from my cablemodem provider > via dhcp. They don't know anything about either saturn or syslang.net My opinion is the result of running hostname is gotten from the data filled in in your /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files. It has nothing to do with name service. Now the host command or dig command do. -- ======================================================================= Vote anarchist. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
