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From: Joyce Harris <harris@amethyst.it.utk.edu>
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That's the way that file looks.  Thanks- J

alex dyas wrote:

> Possibility - Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 
> There should be a line hosts entry in there something like:
> 
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> alex..
> 
> Joyce Harris wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: DNS question
>> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:20:04 -0500
>> From: Joyce Harris <harris@itc.utk.edu>
>> Reply-To: harris@itc.utk.edu
>> To: "'beginners@perl.org'" <beginners@perl.org>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ok,
>> 
>> I know this is not the list to send this to, but it is the most 
>> responsive list. I have a DNS question. I just installed Solaris 8 on 
>> one of our servers. I reconfigured the network files back to the way 
>> they were originally. This is a copy of my /etc/resolv.conf file:
>> 
>> domain it.utk.edu
>> nameserver 160.36.0.66
>> nameserver 160.36.128.66
>> nameserver 128.169.50.100
>> 
>> When I do an nslookup I get the following error:
>> ***Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: No response from server
>> *** Default servers are not available
>> 
>> It doesn't seem like it looks for the name servers in the 
>> resolv.conf  file. Am I missing something?
>> 
>> -- 
>> ÐÏࡱá
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> ÐÏࡱá
>> 
> 
> 

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