On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:32:38AM +0100, 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. nslookup doesn't use the resolver, it queries dns directly. Try ping. -- Mike Stone