[NBLUG/talk] Firewall killing gethostbyname()?

Daniel Smith linux2002 at daniel.org
Sat Sep 13 21:16:00 PDT 2003


>
>
>Check your file "/etc/resolv.conf"
>Does it include "search some-domain.name"?
>like:
>search pacbell.net
>?
>This can be appended to host name searches when a single name fails. (Many
>time, host name lookup require a "FQDN" (Fully Qualified Domain Name) to
>work.



Very good!  This is helpful, thanks Mike.

Daniel

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