On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:17:56 +0200, NN_il_Confusionario ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> You probably want > > getent hosts fred > > the man pages for hosts and getent should explain the differences This is something new I learned today - thank you. And.. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 22:15:37 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This should be controlled by nsswitch.conf (config file for the name > service switch). I had forgotten about this file, so thank you for the reminder. I was confident that 'ping' would work for the OP because 'host' and 'dig' do not normally look at the hosts file, but I could not remember why. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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