On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:17 -0600, Andrew wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a ldap server running on another distro and I use it for a lot of > different things (such as users, passwords, and hosts) and it all works > fine on that distro. I'm also trying to get all of this to work in FC5 > and so far I have gotten users and passwords to work but the hosts is > giving me problems. If I type getent hosts I see the complete list of > hosts as it should be but if I try to ping one of the hosts it just > hangs. If I try to ping the ip address everything works fine. I should > also note that I can't ping domain's either (such as yahoo.com) again it > just hangs but if I use a browser I can browse to them. On another > note, when I type getent hosts in the ldap console i can see the query > but when I try to ping a single domain I see nothing in the ldap > console, not even an attempt. > ---- you need to confirm padl tools setup... what's output of ??? grep host /etc/nsswitch grep host /etc/ldap.conf Craig