I am very new to AIX! I am trying to connect to a box that cannot be found in dns. I thought if the box is not found in dns it goes to the /etc/hosts file to look it up (it is in there!) this is not happening in my case. I am told by dns server that the name box I put in is not found and then returned to my prompt. Could I be missing something?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations SkipVought on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
AIX 5.1 nslookup
- Thread starter womp
- Start date
- Thread starter
- #4
womp,
What I meant is to try the following:
'nslookup sparky'
'nslookup sparky.companyxyz.com'
Also, sometimes I have seen weird things when there are aliases with official name in /etc/hosts.
Example is to have
xx.xx.xx.xx sparky spark1
Where the spark1 is an alias and sparky is the official name.
You can also try adding a test line to /etc/hosts for a host, give it any name and check that it works. It is possible there is a problem with the hosts file.
-Hallux
What I meant is to try the following:
'nslookup sparky'
'nslookup sparky.companyxyz.com'
Also, sometimes I have seen weird things when there are aliases with official name in /etc/hosts.
Example is to have
xx.xx.xx.xx sparky spark1
Where the spark1 is an alias and sparky is the official name.
You can also try adding a test line to /etc/hosts for a host, give it any name and check that it works. It is possible there is a problem with the hosts file.
-Hallux
- Status
