[Cialug] nslookup works but ping cannot resolve

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Feb 7 16:19:05 CST 2008


On 2/7/08, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > Check the contents of /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> Sure.  What should I be checking for?  They both looked normal to me last night.

In nssswitch, you probably want something like the following:

# grep ^hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:      files dns

Jeff


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