Re: system not using hosts file

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:02:14PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> 
> I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1
> 
> ==> host -v fred
> Trying "fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred"
> Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> Received 97 bytes from 192.168.0.2#53 in 0 ms
> 
> 
> ==> cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost fred
> 14.0.0.1                fake.fakelocaldomain fred2 fred3
> 192.168.0.11            realhostname.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com  
> realhostname
> 
> ==> cat /etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> nospoof on
> spoofalert on
> 
> ==> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realdomainname.com
> nameserver 192.168.0.2

This should be controlled by nsswitch.conf (config file for the name
service switch).

The hosts line should be:

hosts:		files dns
networks:	files

Doug.