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From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Routing on a Decstation 3100
Message-ID: <MELLON.91Jun18145826@nigiri.pa.dec.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:58:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: sberger@nmsu.edu's message of 17 Jun 91 17:10:23 GMT


>What is going on?  The ifconfig and everything is right, and my
>network connection is fine, I can talk with the IP numbers, but not
>with names, and all the hosts are in my host table?

Sounds like you have a misconfigured name service on that machine.
If you are expecting your machine to do hostname lookup from
/etc/hosts, make sure that your /etc/svc.conf file has a line like the
following:

hosts=local

If you want to use an external name server, a line like this would be
better:

hosts=bind,local

In that case, you should make sure that your /etc/resolv.conf file
points at legitimate, functional name servers - if it doesn't, then
you will experience hangs while your resolver waits for its name
service to time out - it sounds to me like that's what's happening to
you now.

			       _MelloN_