On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Ron Auer wrote:
Did you set up /etc/resolv.conf correctly?
You need to put your isp's domain in the search, and the dns;s in the
nameserver entries:
search <isp>
nameserver ip.addres..
nameserver ip.addres..
Paul
>Configuration question
>
>After I finished the configuration, I loaded an application that requires it
>to resolve IP address based on host name. So if I have a computer with name
>of mypc.mt.org, it wants to resolve on mypc (since all PC must be in the
>same domain). So when I do a ping mypc, it can not find it. If I do a ping
>mypc.mt.org it works fine. Same problem with nslookup when I type nslookup
>mypc I get:
>
>Server: unix.mt.org
>Address: 138.39.153.1
>
>*** unix.mt.org can't fine mypc: Non-existent host/domain
>
>However, when I do a nslookup mypc.mt.org I get:
>
>Server: unix.mt.org
>Address: 138.39.153.1
>
>Name: mypc.mt.org
>Address: 138.39.167.30
>
>When I do dnsdomain name I get mt.org.
>When I do domainname it is blank.
>
>To fix the ping problem, I put in /etc/hosts the ipaddress and mypc as an
>alias. However, this does not fix nslookup problem. But even more
>importantly, I did not want to put anything in the /etc/hosts if possible as
>there are a lot of PCs on the network and IP addresses get changed and we
>may be going to dhcp soon.
>
>My question, what did I configure incorrectly so Linux isn't appending the
>domainname to the hostname when I do something like ping or nslookup?
>
>Thanks
>
>Ron
>
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