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

[Krista Shufelt]

In article <4056 at darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de> anlauf at darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de (Thomas Anlauf) writes:
>From article <14092 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, by fab9452 at tamsun.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey):
>>  Symptoms:
>>   sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"
>>   ping and finger say "unknown host"
>>   nslookup works fine.
>If you use NIS, you have to call "makedbm" with "b"-option in your NIS-
>makefile while making "hosts.time":

We have the same problem.  Is there any way we can resolve names without
running NIS?


krista shufelt

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