Re: resolver problems

At 06:47 PM 10/28/2007, jekillen wrote:
Hello:
I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system.
It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site.
I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one.
The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with
www.<domainName>.com ping can't resolve the address.
but if I do <actualHostName>.<domainName>.com it works.
Just for control test purposes I tried from a Mac OSX machine
and was able to ping www.<domainName>.com. I even have
my own DNS servers listed as servers to contact in resolv.conf
To abbreviate this message, I am trying to get ports set up
and working.
This time I tried portsnap fetch and the site indicated as
the source and mirrors could not be found.
Any suggestions, help, advice is appreciated. I am going more
to the existing material, but it obviously cannot anticipate this
sort of problem literally.
Thanks In Advance:
Jeff K

Sounds like a DNS problem. Make sure your /etc/hosts only defines the hostname for that machine and localhost. Check you have the correct order of hosts in /etc/resolv.conf, it is read top down. Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts line which should be:
hosts: files dns

You may by mistake have left an entry in a hosts file, or have your DNS not forwarding correctly for unknown names.

-Derek




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