Brian McKee wrote: > I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1
Because host is a BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) command it only reports DNS data from nameservers. /etc/hosts isn't a nameserver and so isn't used. This is also true of the 'dig' command. There are actually two different 'host' commands. There is the host command from the host package and the host command from the bind9-host package. I always use the BIND version of host. Bob
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