Well, IIRC, nslookup will go straight to a DNS lookup, bypassing /etc/hosts and
such, whereas ping (and most other programs) will look at the 'hosts' option
in /etc/nsswitch.conf to determine how to resolve a domain name (RH 6.1 default
is 'files nisplus nis dns').
Soooo... You might look in your /ets/hosts file to see if, for some reason, you
have an invalid entry for sunsite.unc.edu (I can't think of any reason you
would). If not, maybe check out /etc/nsswitch.conf, and if you're running nis
or nisplus you might look at that, too.
- John
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0500, Ben Phillips wrote:
> I just set up Slack 7.0, and it seems to have a strange foible. I can do an
> 'nslookup sunsite.unc.edu', and I can ping the IP address it returns with,
> but if I type 'ping sunsite.unc.edu' it just sits there and does nothing
> until I finally hit ^C. What might cause this?
>
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