On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Michael Owens wrote:
> I modified the nsswitch.conf, but to no avail. But I can ping the name 
> servers fine. When I do nslookup, the exact error is
> 
> 
> root@mike> nslookup yahoo.com.
> nslookup yahoo.com.
> *** Can't find server name for address 216.140.16.254: No response from server
> *** Can't find server name for address 216.140.17.254: No response from server
> *** Default servers are not available

Hum, isn't there some kind of filtering router between the
nameserevers and your host, which could block UDP packets ?

Did you try running 'tcpdump -n' when running nslookup, to see what
happens on the wire ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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