Hey, I can't believe I can't figure this out:P
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. For example, in /etc/hosts I have the following entry: 192.168.10.1 www.yahoo.com ping www.yahoo.com returns: PING www.yahoo.com (192.168.10.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.4 ms However, telnet returns: # telnet www.yahoo.com Trying 66.218.71.80... I've even gone so far as to setup nsswitch.conf like the following: hosts: files [SUCCESS=return] dns Which is kind of rediculous, because that's already the default behavior. I've tried it with nscd, and without nscd. Always the same result. If I remove 'dns' from the hosts: database in nsswitch.conf, telnet gets the correct address. If I put dns first, then everything (including ping) gets the DNS address. my host.conf looks like: order hosts,bind multi on This is surprising, since this really is a pretty-much default install. Any help anyone can offer would be very much appreciated (As I'm starting to tear my hair out:P) - James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
