[indiana-discuss] DNS problem in 2008.05 RC2

[Steffen Weiberle]

Glenn Lagasse wrote:
> * Vitaly (java at skypoint.ru) wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I have noticed a problem with DNS in OpenSolaris 2008.05 in WMWare
>> Fusion virtual machine.
>>
>> Network works
>>
>> $ ifconfig -a lo0:
>> flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
>> index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 pcn0:
>> flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
>> index 2 inet 192.168.212.128 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
>> 192.168.212.255 lo0:
>> flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
>> index 1 inet6 ::1/128 
>>
>>
>> nslookup works: $ nslookup opensolaris.org Server:		192.168.212.2
>> Address:	192.168.212.2#53
>>
>> Non-authoritative answer: Name:	opensolaris.org Address:
>> 72.5.123.5
>>
>>
>> But other programs cannot resolve hostnames, for example, wget says:
>>
>> $ wget opensolaris.org --13:13:26--  http://opensolaris.org/ =>
>> `index.html' Resolving opensolaris.org... failed: node name or service
>> name not known.
>>
>>
>> The problem occurs both on live CD and on the installed system.
> 
> I've seen an intermittant issue such as this though under different
> circumstances.  Try restarting the name-service-cache service:
> 
> pfexec svcadm restart name-service-cache
> 
> And see if that gets things going for you.

I have as well, and it is probably no dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

I have not seen this with RC3.

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Glenn
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