Donna,

I'm not sure if this is just a typo in your post, but the domain names
are resolved in reslvcnf.net.sys rather than rslvconf.net.sys.  Could
this be the problem?

Phil Anthony
Director, System Resources
United Video Satellite Group

918.488.4059
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Garverick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 1:13 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      name resolving
>
> hi all!
>
> i'm puzzled about something....  i want folks here to be
> able
> to ftp/telnet/blah from our mpe (5.5pp4) boxes to any
> machine
> on our wan that can make such a connection.  works fine
> if they use the ip address of the machine.  if, however,
> they
> use the dns name *and* it's not in hosts.net or nsdir.net
> (or more simply(?) it's not in the cache...) it won't work.
> rslvconf.net (/etc/resolv.conf) is pointing to our name
> servers and inetd is running.  nslookup off the 3000's
> works great (thanks! to whoever ported that over :-).
>
> i suspect nslookup's been 'told' to look in the resolver
> first and
> perhaps ftp/telnet look in host.net first?  is there another
>
> piece missing?          - d
>
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> Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
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