samba - May 2005 - not able to do dns lookups after following samba 3 by example

So I followed the steps in samba 3 by example and I got my Samba PDC up
and running.
I have a feeling like when I changed the nsswitch.conf file to have the?
line
hosts:?? files wins

It screwed up my ability to do normal DNS lookups on that machine? Has
anyone else experienced this?

Vincent Yonemitsu
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On Thursday 12 May 2005 11:59, Vincent Yonemitsu wrote:
> So I followed the steps in samba 3 by example and I got my Samba PDC up
> and running.
Which chapter, section and step please. I will need to add another warning.
> I have a feeling like when I changed the nsswitch.conf file to have the?
> line
> hosts:?? files wins
>
> It screwed up my ability to do normal DNS lookups on that machine? Has
> anyone else experienced this?
Of course! You removed the dns entry! What you need is:

hosts: files dns wins


- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
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Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668

Author:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.

>hosts:   files wins
>  
>
Does it honestly say that in whatever you were reading?   The printed 
copy of By Example I have here says

hosts: files dns wins

which is sane.  You (normally) need to have dns in there someplace.

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