sun blade 2000, solaris 10 - dns not working on the browsers 1

[AvayaTier3]

I have a sun blade 2000 running solaris 10
I bought it from a user on craigslist and I had to reconfigure the network settings, rename the server, installed latest version of firefox.

It is connected on my home network with another sun blade 2000, a redhat linux es running enterprise 4, Gateway PC running XP, Sony laptop running vista. Dlink router to get to the outside world.

On the new sunblade 2000 I can connect to anything on my network using names and ip addresses. From the web browser I cannot make it resolve names to the web. From the web browser I can use IP address from nslookup

http://www.sun.com

and it will access the web.

dns service is online. /etc/resolv.conf file has the dns servers and names. /etc/hosts has dns servers and names.

This is working on the other sunblade with solaris 10. It's probably real simple. What am I missing?
This is broken on firefox and mozilla on one sunblade and not broken on the other. I have compared services and setup in both sun blades.

Thanks.

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bsh

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[bfitzmai]

Take a look at /etc/nsswitch.com on your SunBlade 2000. See if you have a dns listed by the hosts entry.

 

[AvayaTier3]

/etc/nsswitch.conf in the new server was missing the dns entries. I made it look like the other sun blade 2000 and it fixed the problem. I appreciate the help.

# DNS service expects that an instance of svc:/network/dns/client be
# enabled and online.

passwd:     files
group:      files

# You must also set up the /etc/resolv.conf file for DNS name
# server lookup.  See resolv.conf(4).
hosts:      files dns

# Note that IPv4 addresses are searched for in all of the ipnodes databases
# before searching the hosts databases.
ipnodes:   files dns

A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

35 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 25 years and counting

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[bfitzmai]

Avaya... Thank-you for the star...

 

[AvayaTier3]

You deserve the star. Sometimes the easiest things are like finding a needle in a haystack.

I appreciate you and the other great resources on this site.

A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

35 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 25 years and counting

http://bshtele.com