I've had similar behavior with netscape. Killing the portmapper seemed to allow the DNS lookups to go through. I don't understand enough to give a reason why, though. I chalked it up to a weird combination of DU libs and improper configurations that I never investigated since I wasn't using NFS or NIS.
Ryan On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tom Vier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:28:43PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Tom Vier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > yeah, it's fine, so is nsswitch.conf. oh well, i'm going to build kde and > > > use > > > konqueror. it is strange that it's only DNS that's broken, though. > > > > That's odd. I do remember seeing this once before, but I don't > > remember what the problem was. The only thing that sounds close is the > > one time I had a bad entry in 'resolve.conf' - all other apps worked > > fine but NS (it was just one bad entry at the bottom). Once I removed > > all but the two good DNS servers from there it started working again. > > nslookup works fine with each server, and i tried removing all but one. > still no luck. > > > Good luck with KDE.. QT2 still doesn't build on Alpha. It appears to > > be gcc's fault. :-( > > thanks for the warning, you just saved me many hours of downloading kde > source. at least i can run it on my ppc box and display it to this one. >
