Re: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:01:48 -0700
"James L. Morton" <jmorton@ezrez.com> wrote:
> I recently installed woody on 3 seperate boxes. On all of them, DNS
> seems to be taking precendence over the hosts file, despite the fact
> that nsswitch.conf is configured to look at hosts first. To make
> matters even more strange, ping gets the correct (hosts) address, while
> all other programs get the incorrect (DNS) version.
Probably your setup is correct. I believe that telnet do a dns reverse lookup
previous to the conection itself. Now www.yahoo.com resolves to 66.218.71.80 not
to 192.168.10.1, then the connection goes to 66.218.71.80.
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