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

[Lightner, Jeff]

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.   


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:29 PM
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Subject: [ale] nslookup works, ping doesn't ???

All,

Opensuse 11.2

I've just had a problematic upgrade of a fileserver.

(I ran out of diskspace on the upgrade as well as some other issues.)

Anyway, I can now boot to init 3, but my nameserver resolution is not working.

I think I have the NIC set correctly in yast (ncurses version).

I can ping local machines by IP.

I can do:
nslookup yahoo.com 127.0.0.1
and
nslookup yahoo.com 10.0.1.44   (my desired primary dns server)

Both those give the expected result.

But "ping yahoo.com" comes back with unknown host.

What gives?

fyi: resolv.conf is not used in this distro.  I see 10.0.1.44 as my
nameserver down in /etc/sysconfig/network/config, but I don't know if
it is working.

Thanks
Greg
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