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nslookup works, PING's bad

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Name: Ruud
Date: April 8, 2003 at 08:40:47 Pacific
OS: Solaris 8/10 01
CPU/Ram: IntelP3/128
Comment:

When trying to PING sites, a very limited of them work. With nslookup sitename, I get a perfekt reply. Have been checking resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf can't figure it out. I'm using DNS.

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Name: David Perry
Date: April 8, 2003 at 09:53:39 Pacific
Reply:

nslookup queries dns records based on the ip numbers of the dns servers list in /etc/resolv.conf

other network services use the order of the host line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to determine the query order. Probably yours should look like:

hosts: files dns


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Response Number 2
Name: ruud_s_nl
Date: April 15, 2003 at 12:23:22 Pacific
Reply:

I've got this line correctly in resolv.conf.

Do I have to start an other process? Why does a nslookup works and pinging the same site doesn't?


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