[K12OSN] infamous grey X bug
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Fri Sep 15 18:59:57 UTC 2006
The host and nslookup commands do not look at the /etc/hosts file, only DNS servers.
Not that that fixes your problem. :-(
Petre
Sonny To wrote:
> Hi,
> I am stuck at the grey X. Many people have had this problem too. I
> went through the check list at
> http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1.3-en.html
>
> GDM is running and enabled set to true. The problem I think is with
> /etc/host
> when using the "host" utlity to lookup host, it always looks at dns
> and now the /etc/host file
>
> for example, my /etc/host entry is
> ws1.ltsp 192.168.1.101 ws1
> ws2.ltsp 192.168.1.100 ws2
>
> but doing an host or nslookup on ws1.ltsp returns
> Host ws1.ltsp not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> my /etc/host.conf is
> order hosts,bind
>
> which should first look at /etc/hosts. Is this a bug with Fedora 5?
>
> I have two NIC. One for external network (eth1) and one for thin
> client network (eth0)
> dhcpd is running on eth0 serving ip address to the thin client.
>
> Since this problem is so common. A tool to help pin point the problem
> would be extremely useful. /var/log/messages doesn't have any useful
> information.
>
> thanks for any help.
> Sonny
>
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