I can successfully resolve FQDNs with "nslookup", but when I launch a
browser it whines that it cannot resolve any names. Why not?

TIA

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, hilge wrote:

> I can successfully resolve FQDNs with "nslookup", but when I launch a
> browser it whines that it cannot resolve any names. Why not?

nslookup talks directly to DNS, whereas most other programs follow
the directions in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Add "dns" to the hosts line
in your /etc/nsswitch.conf, and all should be OK.

HTH,

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