unresolved host and missing nsswitch.conf

[Daniel Price]

I've just installed 11.00 and I'm having problems with the network settings. I'm getting an unresolved hostname problem and searching theough the forum tells me to look at my etc/nsswitch.conf file. The problem is there isn't one. There are other nsswitch.* files with example content, so is it simply a matter of copying one into a file and renaming it .conf?

There is also a lot of reference to NIS, which I'm not using. Does this matter?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Armin Feller]

Hi,

you can find a default 'nsswitch.conf' file in:

/usr/newconfig/etc/nsswitch.conf

or if you only use /etc/hosts for nameresolving you can create a nsswitch.conf in /etc and add following:

vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
+-------------------
| hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns
|
| :wq!

Permissions should be:
ll /etc/nsswitch.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 37 Sep 3 09:43 /etc/nsswitch.conf

Regards,
Armin

[eran maor]

Hi

you can copy the /etc/nsswitch.files to be /etc/nsswitch.conf file .

if you are using DNS for name resol. add this entry to the hots tab .

if you are not using NIS dont used the other files exam that you have in /etc

[Daniel Price]

Thanks for that. I've copied nsswitch.files to .conf and added DNS to the hosts line.

It appears to have solved the problem, although I still can't get netscape to see any external servers.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Armin Feller]

You have to add the proxyserver and the port (8088 for http, see /etc/services) in the netscape lan ssttings.

For the automatical configuration you can try following entry:

http://autoproxy/autoproxy/autoproxy

Regards,
Armin

[eran maor]

Hi

check to see if you config the /etc/resolv.conf file with the name of the DNS server .

if you need to config it go to man resolv.conf and you will see how to config it .

[Daniel Price]

Oops, my fault. Forgot to set the proxy config. Problem solved.

Thanks for all your help.

[Timothy P. Jackson]

I understand that you have resoved your issues, but just a side note. In 'sam' under 'networks and comminications' it has great utilities to maintain resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf. It will create the nsswitch.conf when you run the utility.