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Re: nslookup

#507
From: Basil Holloway
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:58
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"Matt Atterbury" <mat03@virgo.contecint.com.au> wrote in message 
news:87abtx82zl.fsf@virgo.contecint.com.au...
> "Basil Holloway" <farl7FAKE@bigpond.com> writes:
>
>> On Solaris 9 cannot get
>> #nslookup www.sun.com   cannot find server
>> #ping www.sun.com    no answer
>> to work .
>> However using Netscape I can navigate to any page and it seems to work 
>> okay.
>> Setting up email I can receive email but cannot send. Get a message SNMP
>> authentication failure. Mail settings have been double checked and seem
>> okay.
>> I installed Solaris9 on this box in 2004 and am trying to get the network
>> settings installed, which were not installed on the original installation 
>> of
>> Solaris9. Did not feel confortable using sys-unconfig.
>
> You must do sys-unconfig. There might be a way of getting it right
> without doing it, but it is not worth it. sys-unconfig is, in my
> experience, perfectly safe and does exactly what you need (no more).
>
> m,.
Matt
sys-unconfig worked well.
nslookup now works okay.
Thanks
Basil 
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