Jamby wrote:
> Taking your advice I decided to make nubble (the router) answer the DNS
> service request. After all that is what this router is suppose to do in
> the lan. But now I am stumped on that one. From nubble I can ping
> 127.0.0.1, I can telnet 127.0.0.1 and I can ping capeblanco by name or
> ip adder. But after starting the named daemon and using nslookup to find
> capeblanco I keep getting the answer
>
> [root@nubble /etc]\% nslookup
> Default Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> > capeblanco
> Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> *** localhost can't find capeblanco: No response from server
Is /etc/resolv.conf correct?
Also, note that most hostname lookups use gethostbyname(), which can
use various mechanisms (e.g. /etc/hosts, NIS) as well as DNS, while
nslookup only uses DNS.
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