Re: [techtalk] Completely Stumped...

2001-03-25 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Catie, If this problem should occur again, I would suggest to you to try a pkill of nscd ( the naming service caching daemon). It turns out that this daemon is 99% part of the problem. With any luck Sun will either drop it or fix it. Phil At 09:33 PM 25/03/01 -0800, Catie Flick wrote: >

Re: [techtalk] Completely Stumped...

2001-03-25 Thread Catie Flick
Well, it seems that I've fixed it - a reboot because of a power failure seems to have magically made things work (although we did try rebooting earlier...) and no idea still of why this would happen :) I think we'll just have to leave the whys and wherefores of this to obscurity :) Cheers, Cat

[techtalk] Completely Stumped...

2001-03-25 Thread Catie Flick
Hello there, I know this is a Linux discussion list, but I thought maybe someone would have an idea about my problem... I've just installed Solaris 8 on a Sun system, plus Gnome, etc. The problem is that some things just won't resolve names. I have pointed resolv.conf to my nameserver on anothe