Just an FYI since wget exposes this bug, you may see more questions about it. The solution to my problem was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186592
Specically, removing "nisplus" from the "host" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf resolved the problem. Thanks for the help. > "cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thanks >> >> $ gcc a.c >> $ ./a.out yahoo.com >> success >> $ wget yahoo.com >> --12:27:32-- http://yahoo.com/ >> => `index.html' >> Resolving yahoo.com... failed: No such file or directory. > > That is not good because it means that either Wget has a so far > unencountered bug, or that the binary is misbuilt. Can you try to build > Wget yourself and see if the problem persists?
