[ale] DNS lookups slooowwww.....

[flowe at innoverse.com (Cleveland Flowe)]

John Wells wrote:
> 
> Did as you said and it seems to be working.  I have
> named running and added my machine's url to
> /etc/resolv.conf so lookups will try to query my DNS.
> I can nslookup and dig hosts on both internal and
> external nets, but both ping and netscape fail to
> resolve.
> 
> What am I missing?

That sounds like /etc/nsswitch.conf is not setup properly.  Make sure
that file contains a line that looks like this:

hosts: files dns

That line may contain more options, but files and dns are the ones that
you will require.

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