Interesting. I did try winbind last weekend. So whatever I did seems to have messed up the DNS. On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 1:13 PM Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert wrote: > > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert) > > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:35:00 -0800 > > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/81797/nslookup-finds-ip-but-ping-doesnt > > > > BTW, one of the replies: > > https://askubuntu.com/a/428168 > > looks like it was your problem. I'm still not sure how the "dns" could > have got dropped. In fact, I'm not sure what program it is that adds that > "dns" to nsswitch.conf.