Re: DNS server

[Al Sparks <data345 yahoo com>]

Check your /etc/hosts file.  It may have old entries and is keeping
your machine from using DNS for those specific entries.
  === Al


--- Michael George <george mutualdata com> wrote:
> This is a really odd question, but it might save me some search time...
> 
> I just upgraded a Mac to OS X Jaguar...  Now, when I do pings, or anything
> that requires symbolic name resolution, it will only get a response from my
> linux server and continue with it's ping (or whatever), if the sym name was
> passed off by my DNS server to another server.
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> >From the terminal on the Mac, if I do:	
> 	ping www.apple.com
> all works fine.
> 
> If I do:
> 	ping 192.168.0.250 # the IP address of my local DNS server
> that works fine, too.
> 
> And if I do:
> 	nslookup brutus.office.local #the sym name of the server
> 		or
> 	dig brutus.office.local #the sym name of the server
> I get 192.168.0.250 as the response, which is correct.
> 
> But if I do:
> 	ping brutus.office.local
> I get:
> 	ping: unknown host brutus.office.local
> 
> I know the Mac talks to the DNS server because I can see the lights on the hub
> going.
> 
> OS X 10.1.3-5 all work as they should.
> 
> I think, of course, that OSX is at fault, but being BSD, it seems odd that it
> can do nslookups and not pings.  So, I thought maybe there's a difference in
> the type of reply one gets from the server between an nslookup/dig and a
> request for a numeric address from a symbolic.
> 
> So, is there anyone who thinks that the problem might possibly be in any way
> the linux DNS server?  Or is it *surely* the Mac?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Michael
> 
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