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From: krista@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Krista Shufelt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: nslookup works, but ping, finger, telnet, et al don't : HELP!
Message-ID: <11627@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 91 04:34:48 GMT
References: <14092@helios.TAMU.EDU> <4056@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <4056@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de> anlauf@darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de (Thomas Anlauf) writes:
>From article <14092@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452@tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey):
>>  Symptoms:
>>   sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
>>   ping and finger say "unknown host"
>>   nslookup works fine.
>If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS-
>makefile while making "hosts.time":

We have the same problem.  Is there any way we can resolve names without
running NIS?


krista shufelt

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