Mark, Does the hosts: line in /etc/nsswitch.conf specify your desired DNS search order? If it reads "files dns" you can put local names you want resolved locally in /etc/hosts.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Thursday March 13, 2003 Mark Whiteley wrote: > Sometime ago a change occured in my network responses for various > requests. I have spent some time trying to track down the culprit. It > happened around the time that I changed to phoebe 3 from 8.0 and added a > second network card. I also turned on the dhcp server on my router for > my laptop (for addresses starting 192.168.1.120 and all wired computers > are static below this) > > Symptoms: > all addresses not found in dns are forwarded to my gateway (linksys > router) > > ie. if i typed grroogle.com on accident instead of receiving an error it > asks for my router password because it is trying to look at my gateway > address. > > In samba my requests for a netbios name now don't work I must use the ip > address. > > ie. smb://office doesn't work I must use smb://192.168.1.x > > This compounded to my difficulty installing a windows printer it kept > saying that the samba host would not respond. I tried many different > combinations in the definition of the server, share and ip address. > After adding the netbios name to the /etc/hosts file it now works. I am > not sure this is a good thing to do and I am sure it is not the intended > way to accomplish what I want. > > Sorry about the organization here, since I am so puzzled I wanted to > include all info I thought might help. > > thanks, > > -- > Matt Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > Phoebe-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
