nslookup works, but ping, finger, telnet, et al don't : HELP!
Krista Shufelt
krista at jarthur.Claremont.EDU
Wed Apr 10 14:34:48 AEST 1991
In article <4056 at darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de> anlauf at darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de (Thomas Anlauf) writes:
>From article <14092 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452 at tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey):
>> Symptoms:
>> sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
>> ping and finger say "unknown host"
>> nslookup works fine.
>If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS-
>makefile while making "hosts.time":
We have the same problem. Is there any way we can resolve names without
running NIS?
krista shufelt
krista at jarthur.claremont.edu ...uunet!jarthur!krista
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