Hello, On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:19, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I seem to have a DNS problem indeed. When I run tcpdump in an X > window on jupiter and call > > telnet saturn > > in another window, I get a lot of packets beginning with > > 19:35:30.080780 jupiter.my.home.1024 > ns1.myisp.nl.domain: > 19522+ AAAA? saturn. (23) > 19:35:30.081839 jupiter.my.home.1025 > ns1.myisp.nl.domain: > 17118+ PTR? 34.1.121.195.in-addr.arpa. (43) > 19:35:30.107275 ns1.myisp.nl.domain > jupiter.my.home.1024: > 19522 NXDomain 0/1/0 (98) (DF) > > So a private telnet to an entirely local computer involves my > ISP's name server (ns1.myisp.nl), i.e. the outside world. I do not > like this at all. It is in fact pretty frightening. I had supposed > that "order hosts,bind" in /etc/host.conf would keep local address > lookups local, but apparently it does not. host.conf is obsolete, i think it was used by old libc5. You must edit /etc/nsswitch.conf: hosts: files dns regards, Carlos dos Santos
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