Solaris 8

[rsekhar]

Hi,

I am able to use nslookup on the solaris 8 machine, but ping does not work.

Ex. If say nslookup yahoo.com it comes up with the ip adresses, but if I use ping yahoo.com it says unknown host.

I have my dns servers correctly in /etc/resolv.conf.
Any tips with this.

Thanks

 

[iguanasleep]

are you behind a firewall? that happens with me on my solaris machines at work (and my win machines for that matter). i can get to yahoo.com and whatever else thru a browser because of course the browser is config'd to use a proxy for connecting to external sites. but ping has no way of knowing about that and only routes thru internal nets, returning "unknown host" for anything external. i wonder if there's a way to config the other network services to route thru the proxy? then again you did say that nslookup is working...hmmm, that's where my knowledge ends - sorry, and sorry if i pointed out something painfully obvious that you already knew . i'll be interested to see what others have to say on this matter at any rate...
tara

 

[julianbarnett]

Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf should say 'hosts: files dns' if you want to use DNS for hostname resolution.

 

[comtec17]

Rename the /etc/nssswith.conf to nsswitch.old and copy the /etc/nsswitch.dns file to /etc/nsswitch.conf.

 

[rsekhar]

Thanks guys I did what julianbarnett and comtec17 have told me and it works.

 

[steeltown89]

Yes it does work. Thank you! I had the same issue!