[oi-dev] Problem With Zone Networking

Mon Oct 15 00:51:30 UTC 2012

On 14 October 2012 16:55, Nick Zivkovic <zivkovic.nick at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, while I can now do `dig google.com`, and get a proper
> resolution, `ping google.com` does not work.
>
> Which is very strange, to me. One command can do a resolution and
> another can't. I verified that dns/multicast and dns/client services
> are running.

What does the "hosts:" (and "ipnodes:") line in /etc/nsswitch.conf
say?  It should probably include DNS, thus:

    hosts:    files dns

For more details, see:   http://illumos.org/man/4/nsswitch.conf

Cheers.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
UNIX Admin/Developer
http://blog.sysmgr.org