On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:53 -0700, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote: > Hi, > > this is something that has puzzled me for a while, and I like > to get it solved if possible: > > In our environment, we rely heavily in NIS. Our name resolution is > configured in nsswitch.conf to use NIS, then hosts file, then DNS > (host.conf is also configured this way). We have many short host name > aliases in NIS that we use for convenience that are NOT in DNS or > local hosts file. From the OS perspective, this all works well. > > If I attempt a ping to one of those aliases, all works well - the name > is resolved to IP and the ping succeeds. However, if I attempt to use > the nslookup or host command to lookup the alias manually, it fails > with a SERVFAIL error. nslookup is dns specific... host should work though. that sounds like a bug.
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