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From: Jeff Shevlen <jeff@passedpawn.com>
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Subject: RE: [Fwd: DNS question]
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Does Freebsd have an equivalent to /etc/nsswitch.conf?  Or is just not
part of the OS?  I'm trying to get dns setup and nslookup isn't working
for me either.

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Barry Byrne wrote:

> Joyce:
>
> Check /etc/nsswitch.conf has DNS on the hosts: entry. I think it defaults=
 to
> nisplus.
>
>  - Barry
>
> --
> Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
> WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
> Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joyce Harris
>   Sent: 12 March 2002 16:33
>   To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>   Subject: [Fwd: DNS question]
>
>
>
>
>   -------- 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?
>
> --
> =D0=CF=11=E0=A1=B1=1A=E1
>
>
>
>
> --
> =D0=CF=11=E0=A1=B1=1A=E1
>
>


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