ok, a fresh install of debian 7.6, here is my settings, I don't have libnss-myhostname installed yet
root@test1:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 test1.test.com test1 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters root@test1:~# getent hosts $(hostname) 127.0.1.1 test1.test.com test1 root@test1:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis root@test1:~# host -v $(hostname) Trying "test1" Host test1 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 98 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53 in 14 ms Clearly, it skips /etc/hosts entries. After digging around, I noticed, that I had always setup DNS records for my hosts prior to doing the installations, which caused me the confusion on what was happening. I thought that the looking up my hostname resolves correctly by getting the ip from /etc/hosts, which I was wrong. So yes, host does not look in /etc/hosts by default. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 05 Sep 2014 at 10:49:15 -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote: > > > I did not have libnss-myhostname installed. I think it was always shipped > > with the debian installation, at least on wheezy 7.4 through 7.5, I now > had > > wheezy 7.6 installed, Was this changed in 7.6 or I'm just wrong? > > libnss-myhostname is "Priority: extra" and has no reverse depends, so it > would not be expected to come with any Wheezy release. > > > However I installed libnss-myhostname, amd I am now able to start proxmox > > pve-cluster, which I wasn't able before due to failing local dns lookup. > > There is no failing local DNS lookup. It has pointed been out your > /etc/hosts has a line missing. It would look like this > > 127.0.1.1 hostname > > or this > > 127.0.1.1 hostname.domain hostname > > and is put there by the installer. > > libnss-myhostname works without that line being present. > > What does "getent hosts $(hostname)" give? > > > But still when I do host localhost, I still get not found. Is that the > > intended behavior? I just checked on different environments and I see > tjat > > on mac os im also getting not found for localhost. So looks like Reco is > > right that thos is intended behavior. But on my other debian boxes < 7.6 > it > > does work, so my question is why does it work there? So in short, was > there > > any change in the last release? > > It isn't possible for the host command to come up with an IP for > localhost using the DNS. You have a possible misconfiguration. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/20140905161017.gm4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk > >
