Re: nslookup and host always consult a dns server - never local /etc/hosts
Am 22. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Martin F Krafft so:
> second: host and nslookup are DNS utilities, so they don't give a
> flying food about /etc/hosts. as you said, ping and telnet work fine,
> so your systems are good. nslookup and host both always contact the
> DNS server, never look into /etc/hosts.
True. The question, then, is:
Are there any DNS command line tools that do DNS lookups using the same
methods that most apps do? In other words, they pay attention to
resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf, hosts, etc.
ciao,
der.hans
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