On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:56:17PM +0200, Andreas Vent-Schmidt wrote: > after installing some brand new Sarge systems I've been facing a strange > problem concerning the resolution of local(!) hostnames. [trim] > `host 192.168.0.100` > results in: "Host 192.168.0.100 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)" The 'host' utility doesn't use /etc/hosts, only DNS. It snarfs DNS serves from /etc/resolv.conf so you don't actually _realise_ it's doing this, unless you try to 'host' something that exists only in /etc/hosts or some other non-DNS hosts database. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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