Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh
Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:52:27
Message-Id:	`CAC=wYCFOGgJdK54Z8ztx2cp32Bf-GdrkXrAkzbUon8HKwW+SWw@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] DNS error with ssh by Alex Schuster

1	> I'd compare the output of strace ping <host> and strace ssh <host>. Anything
2	> in nsswitch.conf? It seems to be used by ssh, but not by the host command.
3	> Which is new to me.
4
5	IIRC nslookup also only uses DNS servers, not the nsswitch.conf lookup
6	option list. Since the ns probably stands for name server, that makes
7	sense.