Re: My Solaris 2.8 machine resolves remote host names differently than my other UNIX machines

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: 26 Jun 2004 10:53:25 GMT

jschwartz@innovativesystems.net (Jeff Schwartz) writes:

>Why wouldn't the other UNIX machines see justin the same way? They
>all use the same DNS Server.

>> - Your configuration in /etc/nsswitch.conf, i.e. the result of
>> grep '^hosts:' /etc/nsswitch.conf

>/> grep '^hosts:' /etc/nsswitch.conf
>hosts: dns files

>>
>> - What is the contents of /etc/resolv.conf?

>/> more /etc/resolv.conf
>domain innovativesystems.net
>nameserver 192.168.110.11

Do you have /etc/dommainname (remove that if you're not using NIS/NIS+).

And the content of /etc/hosts might be releavant to.

Casper 

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