Question re IP and routing/DNS

[JJ Neff]

It came to me in a dream last night.  I was trying to speed up the programs
starting in X so I commented out a lot of nisplus and nis in nsswitch.conf.  so
the line that said 

hosts:  files nisplus nis dns then said
hosts:  files #nisplus nis dns 


DOH!  I thought of it while I was explaining out loud what was happening to my
wife (strange bedtime conversation I know but you do what you want in bed and
I'll do what I want! )

Anyway that was a great hit right on the head.  And thanks for the DNS server
address.  I will add that to my DHCP config and my /etc/resolv.conf on my
server.

JJN
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:

> As per DNS queries, you said that manually doing an nslookup yields a
> correct host <-> ip query.  So perhaps nsswitch.conf is the culprit.
> 
> look at /etc/nsswitch.conf and look for a hosts entry.  It should say
> something like this:
> 
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> if it does not say dns, then you are telling the system NOT to query for
> dns lookups, and thus your problem.
> 
> On a side note, I would suggest not setting both your DNS servers to the
> trusted adelphia.  I usually set my primary to 128.205.106.1 (UB DNS), and
> then 24.48.33.2 for secondary.  UB tends to have a better handle on heavy
> server loads than Adelphia (hence the mail server, news server, and DNS
> issues they have).  Ever try to query 24.48.33.2 between 5pm-7pm?
> 
> But that's just my opinion :)
> 
>

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