resolv.conf?

[pll at lanminds.com]

>>>>> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, "Ben" == bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

  Ben> One thing to be aware of is that "host" (and "nslookup" and
  Ben> "dig" too) deliberately bypasses the usual gethostby* standard
  Ben> library calls and goes directly to the DNS resolver library.
  Ben> That can occasionally introduce subtle problems.

And it appears to be doing so :)  I can ping the system just fine, 
but can't 'host' it.

  Ben> Try "host -v foo" as well.  That might offer clues.

Ayup, it's only trying eng.lab, not the other domains listed in my
/etc/resolv.conf file, which also seems to indicate that my DNS 
server isn't passing the request up the food chain when using 'host' 
to query it.

Now, even more bizarre, on the DNS server, my resolv.conf file is 
identical to the one on my laptop.  nsswitch.conf has:

	hosts: files dns

as does my laptop.

when I type 'host redsox' on the DNS server, I get the 
correct response.  On my laptop, I do not. Ohhhhh, wait a second, it 
looks like I have 2 different versions of 'host':

laptop:

	$ dpkg -S `which host`
	host: /usr/bin/host

DNS server:

	# dpkg -S `which host`
	bind9-host: /usr/bin/host

And, sure enough, if I install bind9-host on my laptop, everything 
works just fine :)

Thanks folks, you can go back to your fried-chicken discussion now ;)


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