Re: Networking: etch doesn't find local net

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Alexis Huxley wrote:
> > jw@johannes2:~$ host student2
> > student2 has address 192.168.0.31
>
> I believe 'host' goes directly to /etc/resolv.conf to see what
> your DNS servers are.
>
> > jw@johannes2:~$ ping student2
> > ping: unknown host student2
>
> But 'ping' goes through the 'normal' resolution process, the
> first step of which is looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> There I suspect you don't have:
>
> 	hosts: files dns
>
> which is probably what you need.

Thanks, but my /etc/nsswitch.conf already has this set-up (not changed 
from debian's default values) and still it doesn't work:

/--
johannes2:/etc# more nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat
group:          compat
shadow:         compat

hosts:          files dns
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis
\--

The problem seems to be that for internal hostnames it should query the 
first nameserver in resolv.conf (which runs dnsmaq), but apparently it 
queries  the second and/or third which doesn't know the hostname.

For the host command it correctly queries the first nameserver, but for 
ping it wrongly queries the second or third nameserver in resolv.conf.

Johannes