Re: [LUG] resolv.conf

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:24:11AM +0100, Alex Charrett wrote:

> Of course it will only be read if you have a dns entry in the hosts 
> section of your nsswitch.conf
>
> $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf 
> hosts:      files nisplus nis dns
>
> for example.

Indeed. A good test is to do an nslookup which does not use a resolver
and host, which uses gethostbyname. If the nslookup works and host
fails, the resolver config is bad.

Steve

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