Dig and nslookup resolve; ping doesn't

I've got a box running Fedora Core release 3. I'm able to resolve
names such as www.yahoo.com using nslookup or dig but not using ping.
"ping www.yahoo.com" returns "ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com".

/etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns

I'm logged in as root. What am I missing here?

Mark

In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark Tunnell wrote:

>I've got a box running Fedora Core release 3. I'm able to resolve
>names such as www.yahoo.com using nslookup or dig but not using ping.
>"ping www.yahoo.com" returns "ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com".

strace -eopen ping www.yahoo.com

>/etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
>/etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts: files dns
>
>I'm logged in as root. What am I missing here?

I dunno - you did test the obvious problems (DNS query tools don't use
those two files, the resolver does), and I'd guess it can't be a
permission problem... What's on the wire? Are you seeing packets
going out to the name servers? Are they the right ones?

Old guy