I have checked the nsswitch.conf and hosts are in the same order. Yes I am able to ping the ADS servers with their FQDN when the DNS is down but not to any other PCs Regards Babs --- it clown <squid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > look at your nsswitch.conf. > > hosts: files dns > > If you add that to nsswitch.conf it will first look > at your > /etc/hosts file and then dns. Make sure you have > your AD pc > in /etc/hosts. > > to be able to connect to AD you need dns to resolv > its > name. Can you ping any pc on network with its FQDN > when dns > is down? > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:26:06 -0700 (PDT) > Babs <arvbab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Interestingly Henrik , I have added those ADS > servers > > IPs in /etc/hosts when i setup the proxy and still > I > > dont know why this happend. Anything you want me > to > > check it up? > > > > Regards > > Babs > > > > --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Babs wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > As the linuxbox access the Win2K box running > ADS > > > for > > > > getting the user authenticated using > > > squid_ldap_auth, > > > > when the machine running DNS goes down > linuxbox is > > > > not able to reach the Win2K box running ADS I > > > suppose. > > > > As soon as the DNS system came back to life > > > > authentication is working fine. Anyone can > tell me > > > > more why this happens? > > > > > > squid_ldap_auth needs to be able to find the IP > > > address from your ADS > > > server name in order to connect to it.. > > > > > > You can work around this by adding the ADS > server to > > > your local /etc/hosts > > > file. > > > > > > Regards > > > Henrik > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources > site! > > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > For super low premiums, click here > http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
