topic DNS, localhost in Operating System - HP-UX

DNS, localhost

Victor Geere — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:11:10 GMT

I can ping localhost but programs like HP-Eloquence and omniback constantly complains about not being able to resolve localhost, or other server names on the network. /etc/hosts contains the line :

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

and nsswitch.conf contains the line

hosts: files dns

What am I missing?

Re: DNS, localhost

Stefan Farrelly — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:48:16 GMT

Can you confirm it is looking it up in the hosts file;

nslookup localhost

looking up FILES
Name: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Aliases: loopback

Re: DNS, localhost

Victor Geere — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:56:26 GMT

Nope, it tries to use the DNS and fails:

/etc>nslookup localhost
Name Server: titan.nda.co.za
Address: 192.28.16.65

Trying DNS
*** titan.nda.co.za can't find localhost: Non-existent domain

Re: DNS, localhost

Rainer von Bongartz — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:07:48 GMT

Try putting this in /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: files[NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns [NOTFOUND=return UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=return]

Regards
Rainer

Re: DNS, localhost

Nick Wickens — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:20:18 GMT

What do you have in your /etc/resolv.conf file ??