Re: should resolver read /etc/hosts?
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> >From the resolver manual pages I read that a hostname lookup should
> use /etc/hosts. My /etc/host.conf has a line like: order hosts,bind.
> But programs like nslookup only query the dns server.
>
> What is the correct behaviour? Maybe I missed something here?
Yup. nslookup is the exception, which always uses DNS - that's its job.
Try 'ping', which will use the system resolver.
Jules
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