On 6/22/2011 3:30 PM, Robert Henrichs wrote:
what's a good link to read about how the resolv.conf file isconstructed? esp. the "search" entry?
The 'search' should only apply if you don't supply the domain portion of the name. Each nameserver address should be queried until one responds.
My nsswitch.conf file does contain: hosts: files dns (this is an interesting file I'll have to revisit...thanks).
The part that doesn't make sense yet is that your dns is working as shown by the dig/nslookup queries, but ping/wget are failing to look up the name. You might get random success/failure if some of the nameservers in resolv.conf are misconfigured. Seems like a long shot but try: dig @server_address www.henrichs.org for each of the namesever addresses, then maybe strace ping www.henrichs.org and wade through the output to see if it has trouble loading the resolver library or something.