[ale] nslookup works, ping doesn't ???

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 15:09 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> > I don't use Suse but this seems odd to me.
> >
> > Are you sure resolv.conf isn't used?  Is it possible it just isn't there by default?   Maybe you need to manually create one.
> >
> > Is there an nsswitch.conf that tells it where to look?
> >
> > On a quick search I see many references to resolv.conf on OpenSuse 11.2.


> Okay, I'll switch my comment about /etc/resolv.conf to say it is barely used:

I'm seeing some references complaining about weird behavior with an
empty resolv.conf and needing to remove it and then the problem goes
away (I got the impression it then gets created properly but I could be
wrong).  Except those references are in some bug reports wrt 11.2 RC1
and had something to do with NetworkManager.

Mike

> ---------------------------------
> ### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!
> #
> # Before you change this file manually, consider to define the
> # static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
> # /etc/sysconfig/network/config file:
> #     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST
> #     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS
> #     NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER
> # or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:
> #     NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=''
> #
> # See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.
> #
> # Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but
> # may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines
> # only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this
> # file and in case of a "netconfig update -f" call.
> #
> ### Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!
> search internal.norcrossgroup.com
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Note only the last line is not a comment.
> 
> As to /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> 
> This file I don't know much about, but here it is:
> 
> --------------------------------
> #
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
> # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
> #
> # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
> # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
> # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
> # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
> # next entry.
> #
> # Legal entries are:
> #
> #       compat                  Use compatibility setup
> #       nisplus                 Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
> #       nis                     Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
> #       dns                     Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
> #       files                   Use the local files
> #       [NOTFOUND=return]       Stop searching if not found so far
> #
> # For more information, please read the nsswitch.conf.5 manual page.
> #
> 
> # passwd: files nis
> # shadow: files nis
> # group:  files nis
> 
> passwd: compat
> group:  compat
> 
> hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> networks:       files dns
> 
> services:       files
> protocols:      files
> rpc:            files
> ethers:         files
> netmasks:       files
> netgroup:       files nis
> publickey:      files
> 
> bootparams:     files
> automount:      files nis
> aliases:        files
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Neither file is obviously right or wrong to me.
> 
> Greg
> 
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