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> I noticed that the Irix box is missing /etc/nsswitch.conf file where I
> presume it is configured in what order to look for hostnames. I copied
> my Linux's /etc/nsswitch to IRIX and it didn't work. If anyone else
> has an Irix machine can you please send me your /etc/nsswitch.conf or
> whatever it needs?

Hmm, yeah sounds like that is your problem. But the format of the
nsswitch.conf is the same on almost every OS. Solaris, Linux, the format
is the same "hosts: files dns". On the two IRIX machines I run, we're not
using nsswitch.conf but rather, resolv.conf displays:

hostresorder local bind

I'm not even 100% positive that IRIX uses nsswitch. But I might be wrong.

And that should fix that problem, looking to /etc/hosts first, if it
fails, then going to dns.

--
Tim Baur
xcert software inc.

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