On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 17:02:14 -0400, Brian McKee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 > > # ppp temp entry > > > I confess this isn't a debian box, but it should be :-) > (It's actually Mandrake, but I don't think that's pertinent to this > problem) > Why are all domain name requests going to the nameserver first? Doesn't > host.conf control that? Does 'ping fred' work? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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