Re: tru64 netscape DNS trouble

[Daniel Potts <danielp cse unsw edu au>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Peter Petrakis wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ross Knepper wrote:
> > i just installed netscape 4.71 from
> > ftp://ftp.alphalinux.org/contrib/X11/netscape
> > 
> > after installing the rpm, netscape started up willingly.
> > unfortunately, it is unable to resolve any hostname i give it.  it
> > knows hosts that are hard-coded into /etc/hosts however.
> 
> check you /etc/svc.conf and make sure your "hosts" line looks like this.
> hosts=local,bind,yp

One interesting thing I had to do was remove all the yp entires from
/etc/svc.conf, and add "search mydomainname.com" to /etc/resolv.conf
before it started looking up address successfullly. Perhaps this is due to
my name servers being in that domain, I dont really know...

Daniel