DNS Name lookup (was SSH) Not Working After Snow Leopard Upgrade

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Published on 2009-09-12T19:56:39Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 21:40 UTC
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I think this started with the Snow Leopard update. Cleaned out the .ssh directory, still having the issue.

~: uname -a
Darwin california-example-com.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

~: ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009

~: ls -l ~/.ssh

~: nslookup nevada
Server:     10.94.62.3
Address:    10.94.62.3#53

Name:   nevada.example.com
Address: 10.94.62.3

~: ssh nevada
ssh: Could not resolve hostname nevada: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

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