Re: [TCLUG:21623] Re: Name resolution not working

[Clay Fandre <clay@fandre.com>]

Quoting Mandar Vaze <mandar_v@yahoo.com>:

> Yes, I'm using Cisco 675 for doing NAT.
> IP Addr of my linux machine is 10.0.0.2 (Assigned by
> DHCD server running on Cisco 675)
> 
> cbos>show nat
> NAT is currently enabled
> Inside Global Address set to 63.228.43.76
> Inside Local  Inside Global   Timer  Flags  Protocol
> 10.0.0.2:22  63.224.6.31:22    0      0x41   tcp  
> 
> This was setup for ssh connection (for other machine,
> not with me anymore)
> 
> Here's some more output:
> ----------------------------------------------
> [mandar@omega mandar]$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep
> hosts
> #hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts:      files dns
> [mandar@omega mandar]$ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       omega   localhost
> 204.147.80.1    ns3.mn.uswest.net
> 204.147.80.5    ns1.mn.uswest.net
> [mandar@omega mandar]$ nslookup - ns3.mn.uswest.net
> *** Can't find server name for address 204.147.80.1:
> No response from server
> *** Default servers are not available
> [mandar@omega mandar]$
> 

You're running Mandrake, right? How about installing Debian? (That's what Ben 
would say, anyway.)

Do you have a BBC? If you do, see if that works.