Originally I wrote about the problem i was having getting DNS to work
on one of my class c networks. Getting DNS to work on the suns is
pretty simple; add the -b to the NIS makefile and set up the
/etc/resolv.conf file. And this worked just fine on every network
except one. I don't know if this fixes any larger, underlying problem,
but I finally got that rogue network to talk to the internet by
starting up ypserv with the -d option on its NIS server (slave). (-d
means use DNS, if needed) the other NIS servers (master or slave) on
the other networks don't have ypserv running with the -d option, so i
don't know why it should be any different.
Some of the various suggestions were as follows:
verify /etc/defaultrouter is correctly set up
turn off in.named
use direct DNS lookup, bypassing NIS (2)
no default route specified in routing tables (2)
make sure -b cookie is present in hosts NIS map (2)
reinitialize NIS master (ypinit -m)
thanks to all the responders! (including the following:)
mgh@bihobl2.bih.harvard.edu (Michael G. Harrington)
Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@cchtor.ca.cch.com>
jdt@concorde.com (Joe Turner)
weitzel@burke.com (David Weitzel)
heasley@merl.com
rauthenberg@HHI.DE (Stefan Rauthenberg)
grevemes@VTC.TACOM.Army.Mil (Steven Grevemeyer)
original question:
> I have three class C nets: 199.86.16, ..17, ..18 and a mix of solaris 1.1.1
> and solaris 2 machines. the DNS primary is running solaris 1.1.1. i have
> the -b flag enabled on the NIS server. the problem is that i can successfully
> perform nslookups on all three networks, but pings and applications like gopher
> only work on two of the networks (16 and 18). The 199.86.17 network has its
> own NIS slave, just like each of the other nets, with a resolv.conf file and,
> now, also its own in.named ruuning too.
>
> The FMs only state that all that is required to have NIS+DNS lookup of host
> names is to create the resolv.conf file. pretty simple, and this works
> on all of the networks except that one.
>
> what am i doing wrong?? this is starting to get really frustrating.
>
> here is what the /etc/resolv.conf file looks like on the 17 network (same as
> on the other nets):
>
> domain stpaul.gov
> nameserver 199.86.16.38
> nameserver 192.107.111.210
> nameserver 129.128.16.96
>
>
> 199.86.16.38 is our DNS primary. here is what happens on a typical 17 host:
>
> pothole:derekt$ ypwhich
> swamp.stpaul.gov
> pothole:derekt$ ping gopher.tc.umn.edu
> ping: unknown host gopher.tc.umn.edu
> pothole:derekt$ nslookup gopher.tc.umn.edu
> Server: bambi.stpaul.gov
> Address: 199.86.16.38
>
> Name: gopher.tc.umn.edu
> Address: 128.101.54.54
>
>
> how can i get it to use DNS with ping, etc?
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