Gnome-rdp

[Kevin Martin]

On 06/27/2012 07:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/28/2012 05:34 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
>> 192.168.1.84     israel.risingstar.local
> 
> Ahhh....  That is in your /etc/hosts file....  And you said you were doing
> 
> nslookup risingstar   ??
> 
> If that is so, you have 2 problems.
> 
> 1.  nslookup doesn't reference data in the hosts file.  It only does a DNS query.
> 
> 192.168.0.18    nickel nickel.greshko.com
> 
> [egreshko at meimei hidenet]$ nslookup nickel
> Server:         192.168.0.55
> Address:        192.168.0.55#53
> 
> ** server can't find nickel: NXDOMAIN
> 
> Is expected....
> 
> 2.  You have israel.risingstar.local in your hosts file.  Therefore the "host" name
> is israel and the domain part is risingstar.local   Programs such as ping and ssh
> will consult the hosts file.  Sooo......
> 
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ ping israel.risingstar.local
> PING israel.risingstar.local (192.168.0.18) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from israel.risingstar.local (192.168.0.18): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
> 64 bytes from israel.risingstar.local (192.168.0.18): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms
> 64 bytes from israel.risingstar.local (192.168.0.18): icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.030 ms
> 
> So....  change the line in you /etc/hosts if you want a hostname of risingstar.
> 
> 192.168.1.84     risingstar  
> 
> 
> 


nslookup (or some versions of it) used to honor the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so if hosts was defined

hosts:  dns file

in /etc/nsswitch.conf, "nslookup risingstar" would return the address (*if* /etc/hosts had "192.168.0.18   risingstar" in it). But
Ed is correct, Lawrence, in that your /etc/hosts file is incorrect if you are trying to lookup a host named risingstar.  If you
change the /etc/hosts to look like the example entry I provided what does "nslookup risingstar" return?

Kevin