On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Hillel Lubman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a manual network configuration using a wireless interface (pcwl2) on 
> snv_134 (SPARC). I had to take out a network card recently, and after putting 
> it back DNS didn't start working properly. I.e. nslookup resolves names, and 
> dns/client service is up, however any other resolving fails (ping for example 
> doesn't find any server name, only IPs). (There was some crash, and I also 
> had to change the passwd entry for the user to point to /export/home/<user> 
> instead of /home/<user> so gdm will be functional, i'm not sure if it relates 
> to anything though).

See if your /etc/nsswitch.conf file has the following line:

hosts:      files dns mdns

It's probably missing "dns" there.

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Giovanni Tirloni
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