RE: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs
Hmmm...I see there's an open bug report against libc6 for this since
September 28th, 2001 (Heh, I guess that's why downgrading to
libc6-2.2.5-6 didn't help:P). It's exactly the problem I mentioned,
except that the original reporter only saw the behavior in telnet.
It's extremely odd, because gethostbyname() will return the address from
/etc/hosts, however every program I've tried (with the notable exception
of 'ping') tries DNS first, then /etc/hosts if there's no DNS entry.
Can anyone repeat this problem? I imagine everyone must be having
it...And if so, are there any workarounds anyone can think of?:)
- James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James L. Morton [mailto:jmorton@ezrez.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:54 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Hosts/DNS Problems w/ new Woody installs
>
>
> Sorry - I should've been more clear...I used telnet only as
> an example. I've found nothing except 'ping' that picks up
> the correct address (e.g., lynx www.yahoo.com gets me
> yahoo.com, instead of the local
> webserver.)
>
> It seems that on other boxen telnet does pick up on the hosts file.
>
> - James
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marcelo Ramos [mailto:mramos@montevideo.com.uy]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:49 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: 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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