nslookup localhost

[Victor Geere]

nslookup localhost returns
Server can't find localhost. servfail.

localhost is definid in hosts and nsswitch.conf contains the line

hosts: file db nisplus nis dns

I can ping localhost and it resolves to 127.0.0.1, but I can't connect to the HP-Eloquence server on the local machine. The similar problem on HP-UX was solved by changing nsswitch.conf so that nslookup localhost resolves.

I am using RedHat 7.1.

[Tom Maloy]

I believe that the first entry should be "files", not "file". Check the man page on nsswitch.conf.

Tom

[Victor Geere]

fat finger syndrome here.

It says
hosts: files db nisplys nis dns

in the nsswitch.conf.

[Shahul]

Hi

nsswitch.conf is OK. What abot ur /etc/hosts file. It should have a line for local IP addaress and other for loop back address. please check it out...

Best of luck
Shahul

[Craig Kelley]

The nslookup program only does DNS queries. It doesn't pay attention to host files, NIS or any other naming system. So, when you query for 'localhost', it rightly tells you that there is no such host from the DNS server that it's querying.