configure DNS

[Dinesh MIshra]

hi all
i want to configre DNS on hp-ux 11i. Plz provide the steps and commands how to do it.
i have gone through the docs and created the DNS. but when i give nslookup command it takes more time to respond. it serches the hostnames but not the server name.

regards
dinesh

[Yang Qin_1]

Do you want to setup a DNS server on your HPUX 11i machine? or just want to DNS configuration to use other DNS server so that you can resolve the server names , IP addresses? Can you post the content of /etc/nsswitch.conf? What is the difference between hostname and server name in your case?

Yang

[Dinesh MIshra]

hi ...

i am unable to post the /etc/nsswitch file.

i want to configure the DNS server with domain name einc.org
contents of /etc/hosts
131.4.60.15 host1
131.4.60.16 host2
131.4.60.17 host3
131.4.60.18 host4
131.4.60.19 host5

i am configuring on host5 .

regards
dinesh

[Yang Qin_1]

If you cannot post your nsswitch.conf can you check it yourself that there is a line like this one:

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Stuff to check:
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf

Thats pretty much it. Change the servers in /etc/resolv.conf and see if it helps.

Microsoft DNS servers are known to cause this problem. Microsoft patches are sometimes needed to fix this.

Reference:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=239002

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