On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the > > resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded > > to: > > Version: 2.0.7t-1 > > > > with this installed even if your /etc/nsswitch.conf and your > > /host.conf files point to /etc/hosts, the host command never even > > tries to read it when doing name to address translation. > > That is the correct behavior. The host program only queries DNS servers; > it does not consult the local host table. You can try pinging a hostname > in the host table to see if it resolves.
[NB: I was also a guilty culprit] It's wierder than that as someone at IBM pointed out - "host 127.0.0.1" _does_ read /etc/hosts, but "host localhost" doesn't. Strange. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
