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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:27:02 -0500
From:      "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com>
To:        "Jeff Shevlen" <jeff@passedpawn.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: DNS question]
Message-ID:  <025201c1c9fa$350520a0$fd6e34c6@moti>
References:  <20020312115529.F49573-100000@192.168.0.192>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Shevlen" <jeff@passedpawn.com>
To: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
Cc: "Joyce Harris" <harris@amethyst.it.utk.edu>;
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Fwd: DNS question]



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?
>
> --
> ÐÏࡱá
>
>
>
>
> --
> ÐÏࡱá
>
>


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