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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!metro.atlanta.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.17.190.11!news.diac.com!news From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Nslookup and host versus ftp, ping, etc. - strange problem Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 04:09:36 GMT Organization: none Lines: 44 Message-ID: <331e3940.135979897@news.diac.com> Reply-To: sitaram@diac.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p91.ts1.diac.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36634 My apologies for the long post, but there's a peculiar problem I can't figure out: I have a FreeBSD 2.1.6 machine called "sitagw2k" from which "ping sitagw2k", "ftp sitagw2k", "telnet..." etc work fine. But "host sitagw2k" and "nslookup sitagw2k" don't work. I dont have "named" running - we have a gateway/firewall machine which is used as a nameserver as well as our link to the outside world. That part is fine: "nslookup ftp.freebsd.org" returns 165.113.58.253 and wcarchive.cdrom.com, for instance. So I have the peculiar situation that these commands can find others, but not the machine on which they are running! Details of configuration: This is FreeBSD 2.1.6 on an unused P75 that nobody claimed - it is *not* possible to sanctify its existence by including its name and IP address in the NIS maps because if I attempt to do that I might lose the machine (don't ask :-) So I always refer to it by its IP address, and everything works fine (FTP server, X server, Samba, is all I've loaded on it so far). But I loaded apache today, and got an unknown host error when attempting to "http://iii.jjj.kkk.lll/~sitaram" (where the iii stuff is the IP address). The error I got was that "sitagw2k.mydomain.com" was not found - it had resolved the IP address into a name, then failed on the name lookup! I spent about 2 hours trying to figure this out - during which time I found out about host and nslookup! I'd never had occasion to use them before...I figure if I can get them to recognise "sitagw2k", apache will too. Other details: (1) "named" is not running. (2) /etc/hosts contain the 127.0.0.1 (localhost) entry, as well as the sitagw2k entry with my IP address on it. (3) resolv.conf has our "gateway"s IP address as a nameserver. Any help, pointers, or suggestions much appreciated! I'm at the end of my tether. I'd be happy to supply any other details that might be pertinent that I have missed. Sitaram