Nslookup does not work properly

[Vivek Bhatia]

Hi Experts,

I am running nslookup from the same server but with the different user accounts on 11.31

Have a look at the different outputs below.

From root user account
#nslookup -swdebug lonunx02
could not open /etc/nsswitch.conf
__nsw_getconfig: NO POLICY FILE
__nsw_getdefault: default hosts lookup policy
Name Server: lonads02.eu.colt
Address: 10.144.18.53

Trying DNS
Name: lonunx02.eu.colt
Address: 10.100.5.248

From Oracle User
$nslookup -swdebug lonunx02
could not open /etc/nsswitch.conf
__nsw_getconfig: NO POLICY FILE
__nsw_getdefault: default hosts lookup policy
Using /etc/hosts on: lonvps07

looking up FILES
*** No address information is available for "lonunx02"

Please share your expert advice on this to fix it.As i expect the nslookup to work same as the one working from the root account.

Thanks
Vivek

[Bill Hassell]

Most likely your /etc/nsswitch.conf file is not readable for ordinary users. The correct permissions for /etc/nsswitch.conf is 644. You can also verify resolver actions by using nsquery:

nsquery hosts lonunx02

[Steven Schweda]

> could not open /etc/nsswitch.conf

You're not curious?

ls -l /etc/nsswitch.conf

> Using /etc/hosts [...]

You're not curious?

ls -l /etc/hosts

> [...] i expect the nslookup to work same as
> the one working from the root account.

Then everyone should have read permission on
these files.

[rariasn]

Hi,

# chmod 444 /etc/hosts

rgs,

[Vivek Bhatia]

HI Guys,

Thanks for helping me on this issue.

The issue was with the /etc/resolv.conf as it was not having right permissions for oracle to read.So i changed the permissions and then it worked.As in the 11.31 nsswitch is not present by default.

Thanks
Vivek Bhatia

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

When a system is installed there are several candidate /etc/nsswitch files.

There is not an /etc/nsswitch.conf file in production.

The systems administrator needs to create nsswitch.conf, which usually involves copying one of the candidate files to become nsswitch.conf

After that, you will with an /etc/resolv.conf file have some chance of nsslookup working.

Both configuration files have man pages to help you get them configured.

SEP

[Vivek Bhatia]

Thanks