more DNS problems (F10)

[Steven Stern]

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On 12/18/2008 06:42 AM, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 06:31 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
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>> On 12/18/2008 05:18 AM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
>>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>>> OK. I don't understand this:
>>>>
>>>>   [sdstern at sds-desk ~]$ ping sstern.ccim.com
>>>>   ping: unknown host sstern.ccim.com
>>>>
>>>> BUT
>>>>
>>>>   [sdstern at sds-desk ~]$ nslookup sstern.ccim.com
>>>>   Server:        127.0.0.1
>>>>   Address:    127.0.0.1#53
>>>>
>>>>   Non-authoritative answer:
>>>>   Name:    sstern.ccim.com
>>>>   Address: 12.40.135.219
>>>>
>>>> nslookup finds the right value, but ping reports unknown host.  I
>>>> haven't changed any of my configuration files.
>>>>   
>>> What is in your /etc/resolv.conf ?
>>> You could put localhost(127.0.0.1) as first entry in there. And maybe
>>> delete other nameserver entries as you have local dns-server.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Veli-Pekka
>>>
>> That is how resolv.conf is set.  Something changed how names were
>> resolved with a recent system update.
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> check /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 
> Craig
> 
2004-09-22 20:17 /etc/nsswitch.conf

The issue isn't the contents of the file -- something in the glib update
I applied on the 17th broke name resolution.

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  Steve
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