On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:01:48 -0700 "James L. Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- ______________________________________________________ ______ _____________ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __ | Debian 3.0 GNU/Linux 2.2.20 | |_/ / Linux registered user #118109 | \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_____|\/|_____|\______\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]