This section looks at simple troubleshooting of all the name services that you will encounter, but only for the common problems that affect Samba.
There are several good references for troubleshooting particular name services: Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu's
DNS and Bind covers the Domain Name Service (DNS), Hal Stern's
NFS and NIS (both from O'Reilly) covers NIS ("Yellow pages") while WINS (Windows Internet Name Service),
hosts/LMHOSTS files and NIS+ are best covered by their respective vendor's manuals.
The problems addressed in this section are:
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Identifying name services
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A hostname can't be looked up
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The long (FQDN) form of a hostname works but the short form doesn't
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The short form of the name works, but the long form doesn't
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A long delay ocurrs before the expected result
