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Re: 5.2 DNS Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sat Nov 14 03:08:50 1998

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 03:07:40 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Andy Moskoff wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I upgraded to 5.2 and it updated BIND to BIND 8. I have the named configured
> properly since nslookup runs fine. However, I can't seem to get name
> resolution
> for my local LAN machines. For example, "ping <machine>" says that the host
> is unknown, but nslookup does resolve the name correctly. What am I missing
> here?

Have
    nameserver 127.0.0.1
in /etc/resolv.conf, and
    order hosts, bind
in /etc/hosts.conf.

--

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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