\[Solution\] Solaris issue with wget not resolving Domain name (DNS name lookup failure)
Today I was working with <a class="zem_slink" title="Solaris (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://oracle.com/solaris">Solaris and after I had set up the <a class="zem_slink" title="NIS+" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIS%2B">NIS+, <a class="zem_slink" title="Name server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server">DNS server, IP Address and completing the basic setting. I was using the pkg-get util from the freesunware.com
The utility was using wget and it was failing constantly. From the looks of it, it was very clear that the wget utility was unable to find the <a class="zem_slink" title="IP address" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address">IP address from the name. <a class="zem_slink" title="Name resolution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_resolution">Name resolution was not happening, while dig and <a class="zem_slink" title="Nslookup" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup">nslookup was able to do the DNS lookup.
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