Problem with local network

[Chris Jones]

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Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:37, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>>>> I have a networking problem which is puzzling me. I am
>>>> clearly missing something. Several of my servers apps are
>>>> failing because they are unable to resolve any of the local
>>>> hostnames. I have checked /etc/hosts, /ete/resolv.conf and
>>>> both are as they should be, yet I am unable to ping any of my
>>>> LAN connected PC's by name. I can ping them by their IP
>>>> addressess, but not by name.
>>>>
>>>> What else should I look for?
>>>
>>>
>>> What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf?
>>>
>>> $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>> I get the following from that:- [root at bilbo ~]# grep hosts
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts:
>> files dns
>
>
> Who is providing dns and are the names in there? What does 'dig
> host.your_domain' say?
>
DNS is provided by a caching-only nameserver on bilbo and the only
names I can see in the named.conf file are for localhost and
localdomain. The output from the dig command is:-
[root at bilbo ~]# dig bilbo.stow-jones.local

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> bilbo.stow-jones.local
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 59692
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bilbo.stow-jones.local.                IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10729   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2006011300 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 57 msec
;; SERVER: 212.23.3.100#53(212.23.3.100)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 13 20:50:09 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 115

[root at bilbo ~]#



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