[H-GEN] Re: [H-CHAT] Nameserver problems

[Martin Pool]

> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:48:11 +1000 (EST)
> From: ce at heaven.ethereal.net (Craig Eldershaw)

> A friend's Linux box is having problems which I can't (or haven't yet
> managed to) solve.  The problem is in resolving names.  He appears to have
> a correct resolve.conf and host.conf files.  He can ping the nameserver,
> he can use nslookup to resolve names, but othe programs (such as ftp
> etc) fail with a `Bad hostname'.  The really odd thing is that it *was*
> working and then "just stopped" when playing around with Netscape config.
> Any ideas/suggestion ?

1. It's usually called /etc/resolv.conf

2. Are you using a proxy?  Is it's name service working properly.

3. Try 

$ telnet myproxy.victim.com 80
HEAD http://www.abuse.net/ HTTP/1.0

with two blank lines after the GET.  Do you get an error message or
some HTTP headers?

-- 
  Martin Pool, Pharos Business Solutions      <m.pool at pharos.com.au>
  "The designer of Java paid close attention to the lessons of C++
   and he still has both his feet." -- Peter van der Linden
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