Jamby wrote:
> Here's a copy of some of my files
>
> "resolv.conf"
> domain nubble.light-by-the-sea.com
> search nubble.light-by-the-sea.com light-by-the-sea
Note: the resolver(5) manpage says:
The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If more
than one instance of these keywords is present, the last instance
wins.
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> #nameserver 207.69.188.185
> #nameserver 207.69.188.186
>
> #search domain.com
> "resolv.conf" end--
>
> The two nameservers commented out above are my ISP's. I commented them
> out while experimenting with the problem.
>
>
> "hosts"
> #
> # /etc/hosts
> #
> # This file contains the hostnames and their address for hosts in the
> # network. This file is used to resolve a hostname into an Internet
> # address.
> #
> # Internet Address Hostname # Comments
> # 192.9.200.1 net0sample # ethernet name/address
> # 128.100.0.1 token0sample # token ring name/address
> # 10.2.0.2 x25sample # x.25 name/address
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost nubble.light-by-the-sea
> #0.0.0.0 jamby97.users.mindspring.com
> 192.168.0.4 capeblanco capeblanco.light-by-the-sea.com
This is why you can ping capeblanco by name. Unless you've modified
/etc/nsswitch.conf, gethostbyname() always checks /etc/hosts first.
nslookup, OTOH, only uses DNS.
> 192.168.0.2 heceta heceta.light-by-the-sea.com
> 192.168.0.3 hatteras hatteras.light-by-the-sea.com
> 192.168.0.1 nubble nubble.light-by-the-sea.com
> "hosts" end---
>
> "host.conf"
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> "host.conf" end---
Note: /etc/host.conf doesn't appear to be used on glibc-2 systems. It
has been superseded by /etc/nsswitch.conf.
I can't see anything obviously wrong with your files.
Is named actually running? Are there any firewall rules which would
block access to it?
You could try running nslookup under "strace"; that will show what it
is trying to do, and what is failing (look for error codes; these are
in block capitals and begin with "E", e.g. "ENETUNREACH").
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