Problem With Hostname Resolving

[Karthik S S]

Hi,

We have a linux machine with proper network configuration. nslookup is working ok when you try to resolve other hostnames. But ping fails unless otherwise you give a FQDN.

i.e

ping node1 - fails
ping node1.domain.com - passes

What could be the reason. Problem is not only with the ping but due to this automounting of shares also fails. Extract from messages file,

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[root@linux-pc /etc]# more /var/log/messages
Jul 20 04:25:17 linux-pc syslogd 1.4-0: restart.
Jul 20 04:24:55 linux-pc nis_cachemgr[571]: Could not lookup cbin.eng.: NIS+ servers unreachable
Jul 20 04:25:54 linux-pc last message repeated 6 times
Jul 20 04:25:55 linux-pc automount[691]: attempting to mount entry /auto/ecs
Jul 20 04:26:04 linux-pc nis_cachemgr[571]: Could not lookup cbin.eng.: NIS+ servers unreachable
Jul 20 04:26:05 linux-pc automount[9274]: mount(nfs): entry ecs: host coffee: lookup failure
Jul 20 04:26:14 linux-pc nis_cachemgr[571]: Could not lookup cbin.eng.: NIS+ servers unreachable

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Though it says NIS server is not reachable I am able to resolve other tables like passwd, group. DNS is used for hosts. /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf are just fine.

Pl. help

Thanks
Karthik S S

[Karthik S S]

It is working now after a reboot.

Thanks for not replying :-)

-Karthik S S