nslookup works, but ping, finger, telnet, et al don't : HELP!
Thomas Anlauf
anlauf at darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de
Fri Apr 5 18:13:01 AEST 1991
>From article <14092 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452 at tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey):
>
> Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 .
>
> The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't
> figure it at all.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
>
> ping and finger say "unknown host"
>
> nslookup works fine.
>
> Question:
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem?
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS-
makefile while making "hosts.time":
hosts.time: $(DIR)/hosts
- at if [ -f $(DIR)/hosts ]; then \
sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/hosts | $(STDHOSTS) \
| awk '{for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) print $$i, $$0}' \
| $(MAKEDBM) -b - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/hosts.byname; \
... /|\
... |
... |
Greetings - Thomas
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