> Thomas, > > My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. > My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it. > > Tony
Tony, do you have a nameserver line in /etc/resolv.conf? It must be in the form: nameserver 122.122.122.122 Of course, you would have to substitute 122.122.122.122 for the address of your nameserver (127.0.0.1 if you are running it on your machine). Alex Y. > > > > ---------- > > From: Thomas Baetzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tony Koehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: NSLOOKUP don't work > > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 10:01 AM > > > > Tony Koehn wrote: > > :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this > > :message: > > : > > :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent > host.domain > > :*** Default servers are not available. > > : > > :What did I do wrong? > > > > See wether there's a line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts. > > See wether /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" or "order bind,hosts" > > in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver > > configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse > > order. > > > > Ciao, > > -- > > Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <A HREF="http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/~bath0011/>Visit my Homepage!</A> > > "The cowards never came, and the weaklings died on the way" - R.A.H. > > -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
