On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > 127.0.0.1 is the localhost ( your machine ). Unless > your machine is acting as the name server names will not be > secolved. You will have to get the name server from the network > administrator.
I'm fully aware that 127.0.0.1 is the localhost, and (as stated in my initial request) I do have a fully functional nameserver on my loclahost. BUT I don't want to add temporary names for testmachines etc into the named. The problem is that the hosts file doesn't get used when resolving hostnames even though my /etc/host.conf says it should be primarily used. Any suggestions ... --- Forwarding my initial request ---- My problem is that the /etc/hosts files doesn't seem to be used when resolving hostnames. I'm runing Debian 2.1 r2 with Linux kernel 2.2.11 (downloaded recompiled source) glibc 2.0.7 (libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb) libresolv 2.0.7 (libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb) Here are some config files. Things whithin <> of course have real values in the files. --- /etc/resolv.conf ----------------------------------- nameserver 127.0.0.1 search <domain1.net> <domain2.net> <domain3.net> nameserver <ipaddress> nameserver <ipaddress> nameserver <ipaddress> --- /etc/host.conf ------------------------------------- order hosts,bind multi on --- /etc/hosts ----------------------------------------- 127.0.0.1 localhost <ipaddress1> <hostname1.domain1.net> <hostname1> <ipaddress2> <hostname2.domain2.net> <hostname2> <ipaddress3> <hostname3> ... and so on. I have a working nameserver and no problems with DNS registered names. But for hosts not in the DNS but only in the /etc/hosts file the names can't be resolved. Ex. (% == shell prompt): % ping <ipaddress3> PING <ipaddress3> (<ipaddress3>): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from <ipaddress3>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.3 ms 64 bytes from <ipaddress3>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms ... % ping <hostname3> ping: unknown host <hostname3>
