[ale] Networking problem.

[James P. Kinney III]

Check the /etc/resolv.conf file for a "domain corbin.machturtle.com"
entry. If it is missing, that is the problem. The resolver doesn't know
what domain to append to the host name. host will ask the nameserver for
data. If the nameserver machine has the host in DNS or the /etc/hosts
file, it will return a correct reply. But the local machine doesn't use
the host command to resolve names. It only uses the settings defined in
/etc/nsswitch.conf (often host,dns). The usual dns request will not pull
data from a remote machines /etc/hosts file unless that machine is set
to publish the data through bind.

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 06:21, David Corbin wrote:
> I don't understand this behavior :  As you can see below, I can resolve "oboe" 
> using 'host'. I can ping it if I give it a fully qualified domain name.  
> However, ping says "oboe" is an unknown host.  In what *may* be a related 
> problem, when I ssh to this machine, there is an unusual delay before I 
> connected/authenticatec - about 10 seconds more than for other local systems.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] host oboe
> oboe.corbin.machturtle.com has address 192.168.26.150
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe.corbin.machturtle.com
> PING oboe.corbin.machturtle.com (192.168.26.150): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 
> --- oboe.corbin.machturtle.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/0.5 ms
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe
> ping: unknown host oboe
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.26.150
> domain machturtle.com corbin.machturtle.com
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log]
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