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Can anyone confirm, explain or solve the following problem?

After upgrading several different sparc machines (SS10 - U5, 32bit)
from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7 Netscape 4.5 (sunos551) stops using
answers to its resolver queries.  It hangs "forever".  The Navigator
shows only pages which servers are listed in /etc/inet/hosts.

nsswitch.conf:          hosts: files dns

snoop shows that the resolver successfully queries the name server
for the internet addresses Netscape is trying to connect to.  the
resolver/Netscape keeps trying anyways.

All other services like nslookup or 2.6 executables telnet, lynx,
ftp, ssh, host seems unaffected.

The just installed communicator-4.08 works too.

-ws

Quote:> nsswitch.conf:             hosts: files dns

I don't claim it actually changes anything, but nothing else comes to
my mind. With that setting, Nutscape returns error (host does not have DNS
entry or something to that effect), but it connects after I hit reload.

Quote:> snoop shows that the resolver successfully queries the name server
> for the internet addresses Netscape is trying to connect to.  the
> resolver/Netscape keeps trying anyways.

Quote:> All other services like nslookup or 2.6 executables telnet, lynx,
> ftp, ssh, host seems unaffected.

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Netscape 4.5 worked fine on a "fresh cdrom install", but failed on all
of our nice, consistently-configured autoinstalled machines.

After much fuss, I eventually tracked the problem down to a bad entry
we'd been adding to /etc/nscd.conf.  Removing this entry allowed
netscape 4.5 to resolve hostnames again.

Quote:

> Can anyone confirm, explain or solve the following problem?

> After upgrading several different sparc machines (SS10 - U5, 32bit)
> from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7 Netscape 4.5 (sunos551) stops using
> answers to its resolver queries.  It hangs "forever".  The Navigator
> shows only pages which servers are listed in /etc/inet/hosts.

Thank you very much, ws