 | | | Name lookup question | Name lookup question 2005-05-12 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:53 -0700, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is something that has puzzled me for a while, and I like
> to get it solved if possible:
>
> In our environment, we rely heavily in NIS. Our name resolution is
> configured in nsswitch.conf to use NIS, then hosts file, then DNS
> (host.conf is also configured this way). We have many short host name
> aliases in NIS that we use for convenience that are NOT in DNS or
> local hosts file. From the OS perspective, this all works well.
>
> If I attempt a ping to one of those aliases, all works well - the name
> is resolved to IP and the ping succeeds. However, if I attempt to use
> the nslookup or host command to lookup the alias manually, it fails
> with a SERVFAIL error.
nslookup is dns specific... host should work though.
that sounds like a bug.
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