Network Auto-Magic and nsswitch.conf

Rudy is back ! It is a long time that I didn't write a new blog entry... Here we go ! I left Sun Microsystems and started my own and little company named VSolutions... Little because there is only 1 person inside : me ! I am still a Sun fan and will continue to make your life easier...

I bought my own laptop, a Dell Vostro 1720 and installed OpenSolaris 2009.06.
I will create a specific entry on the Dell Vostro... But I reviewed on the Internet that some people used Network Auto-Magic to configure the network and they had problems with dns. Especially using a browser like Firefox.

If you configured dns, used nslookup and it does not work using Firefox it is because the file /etc/nsswitch.conf was not updated to use dns !

Do the following as root :

cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.orig
cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf

Restart your browser (by example)

That should do the trick !

- Rudy -