ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle) (04/30/91)
for various reasons we were experiencing problems with some of our nameservers
so I thought I would use the "hostresorder" keyword in the resolv.conf file.
Why is the follwing behaviour occuring (Irix 3.3.1)
ianh@morgana-> nslookup sgi.com
Server: zaphod.resmel.bhp.com.au
Address: 134.18.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: sgi.com
Address: 192.48.153.1
ianh@morgana-> ping sgi.com
ping: sgi.com: Unknown host
ianh@morgana-> cat /usr/etc/resolv.conf
hostresorder local bind yp
domain resmel.bhp.com.au
nameserver 134.18.1.1
nameserver 134.18.1.5
ianh@morgana->
I can see SGI.COM using nslookup. Clearly it is using my nameserver as
designated in resolv.conf, but why can't I ping it ??? Sure, sgi.com isn't
in my /etc/hosts file, but I thought that the "hostresorder" line would
have forced the use of BIND at this stage to get an address.
What am I missing . .... something really dumb I'm sure :-)
ian
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E-mail : ianh@resmel.bhp.com.auianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle) (05/02/91)
ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >for various reasons we were experiencing problems with some of our nameservers >so I thought I would use the "hostresorder" keyword in the resolv.conf file. >Why is the follwing behaviour occuring (Irix 3.3.1) [ examples of ping not working] >designated in resolv.conf, but why can't I ping it ??? Sure, sgi.com isn't >in my /etc/hosts file, but I thought that the "hostresorder" line would >have forced the use of BIND at this stage to get an address. *fat* fingers were the answer !! :-( I hang my head - I had "bin" instead of "bind" in the resolv.conf file. Suffice to say that was not sufficient. All is in order. ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au