nslookup works, but ping, finger, telnet, et al don't : HELP!

[Thomas Anlauf]

>From article <14092 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452 at tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey):
> 
>  Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 .
> 
>  The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't 
> figure it at all.
> 
>  Symptoms:
> 
>   sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
> 
>   ping and finger say "unknown host"
> 
>   nslookup works fine.
> 
>  Question:
> 
>   Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem?
> 
>   any help would be appreciated.
> 

If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS-
makefile while making "hosts.time":

hosts.time: $(DIR)/hosts
	- at if [ -f $(DIR)/hosts ]; then \
		sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/hosts | $(STDHOSTS) \
		| awk '{for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) print $$i, $$0}' \
		| $(MAKEDBM) -b - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/hosts.byname; \
		...          /|\
		...           |
		...           |

Greetings - Thomas

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