Dempo Mail on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 rearranged electrons thusly:
> Is it necessary to include all the hosts which I specify in DNS
> configuration ( forward & reverse lookup files ) in /etc/hosts file ?
> Because if I uncomment one of the entries in /etc/hosts file than it does
> not work ?
See whether nsswitch.conf and hosts.conf are set properly.
Recheck your DNS config. Run nslookup, try to ping all the servers around.
-suresh
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