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Re: NSLOOKUP don't work



Thomas,

My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it.
My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it.

Tony



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> From: Thomas Baetzler <thb@regioservice.de>
> To: Tony Koehn <bigt@ourtownusa.com>
> Subject: Re: NSLOOKUP don't work
> Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 10:01 AM
> 
> Tony Koehn wrote:
> :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this
> :message:
> :
> :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent
host.domain
> :*** Default servers are not available.
> :
> :What did I do wrong?
> 
> See wether there's a line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts.
> See wether /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" or "order bind,hosts"
> in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver
> configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse
> order.
> 
> Ciao,
> -- 
> Thomas Baetzler, thb@regioservice.de, bath0011@fh-karlsruhe.de
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> 



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